Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saying little, Kaganovitch poked about among women diggers obviously making frantic efforts to push the big tubes to completion on time. After inspecting everything he turned to the Chief Engineer, who might be shot for "counter revolution" if his subway failed to please...
...Passing up such dullish reading, reporters fastened their eyes on other social documents: The Working Woman in the Soviet Union, Why a Workers' Daily Press?, and outpourings like What Every Worker Should Know About NRA by Earl Browder, Secretary of the Communist Party. Opening the last they read: "Push aside the capitalists, open the warehouses, distribute the goods to all who need them. . . . Under Roosevelt and the NRA, the millions of workers are getting less food, less clothing, less shelter, than they did under Hoover...
This campaign was launched, according to Dr. Schmitt, because so many German firms are infected with "export fatigue." They have weakened in their efforts to push their sales in foreign markets where depreciated currencies have made ruling prices low in terms of gold or of the German mark. Cried Dr. Schmitt: "The error of concentrating on the home market in times like these must be uprooted! Exports must be forced by every means so as to secure for the Fatherland adequate foreign exchange...
...been favorable and Argentina, ignoring her export quota fixed at the London Wheat Conference last August, had plenty of wheat for sale. The Liverpool price at the end of May was around 72¢. Not until mid-June, when drought news from Canada became alarming, did Liverpool traders begin to push the price. October wheat at Liverpool last week reached 86¢. Some U. S. speculators were proclaiming last week that in the domestic market, which is effectively isolated from the world by a 42¢ tariff, the sky was the limit. Grain experts felt that U. S. wheat prices at present crop...
Last week the fingers of La Prensa's acting publisher, Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz, itched to push the siren button. There was much to celebrate. Not only was it Nueve de Julio, Argentina's Independence Day, but potent old La Prensa was formally inaugurating a new $3,000,000 printing plant, finest in South America. Its holiday edition ran to 725,000 copies- 150,000 more than its previous record...