Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frances M. ("Robbie") Robinson secretary-assistant to NRAdministrator Johnson: This new day offers abundant opportunity to our secretaries. . . . The door is open. It is up to the women to make the grade. . . . Pull is the bunk. Push and merit are all that count...
...Board of Education sent a telegram to RFC. The Chamber of Commerce wrote a letter. The City Council and the Rotary Club adopted resolutions. At least five other organizations pleaded by telegraph and mail. Thus last week did Toledo get behind a move to push through a $2,000,000 loan from the RFC to Willys-Overland...
...extra punch it didn't have before they were sent into the second battle with the Ithacans, and Mitch isn't going to break up a winning outfit. Charley Nevin, the siege gun who is leading the League in batting with a .500 average, will have another chance to push up his record...
...living. The old men, on the other hand, who have lived the greater portion of their lives have sat quietly by and looked on, amused perhaps. For them living for the sake of living has lost its value and only because of loyalties to some ideals do they push on towards a goal and wait patiently for their short span of life...
...Recent rains in South Dakota were cause for excitement at the stockholders' meeting of Chicago & North Western Ry. Drought and a grasshopper plague had combined with Depression to push North Western's deficit to $11,216,000 in 1932. Last year it was cut to $7,875,000. President Fred Wesley Sargent told his stock-holders last week that if North Western's earnings continued at the rate enjoyed for the first quarter the road would finish this year with a $2,000,000 profit...