Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closed. ... If you have to jump from the ship into burning oil you may, if you are a good swimmer, avoid being burned. . . . Jump feet first through the flames. Swim as long as you can under water, then spring above the flames and breathe, taking a breast stroke to push the flames away; then sink and swim under the water again. ... To be able to do this, however, you will have to remove your life belt and other cumbersome clothing. . . . The danger of injury from underwater explosion is lessened by swimming or floating on the back...
...push these deals through, young Odium had two big helpers: 1) experience gained from his financial-minded father, 2) the badly drawn excess profits tax law which penalizes companies with low peacetime earnings and limited invested capital, but helps oldtimers with large invested capital. An official proxy statement says that Great American has an "invested capital of not less than $30,000,000 . . . which means that at least $2,000,000 of net income is not subject to excess-profits taxes...
...year-old, six-foot-three-inch youngster who had been writing "mood music" in Hollywood slipped across the U.S.-Canadian border. To a Canadian colonel he said: "I am tired of seeing these other fellers push you guys around," forthwith enlisted...
...fetishistic crutches featured in so many Dali paintings may be traced to a crutch which he found in the attic of a tower from which he had planned to push a girl. Says Dali: "It was the first time in my life that I saw a crutch. . . . The superb crutch! Already it appeared to me as the object possessing the height of authority and solemnity. [It] communicated to me an assurance, an arrogance even, which I had never been capable of until then...
After debts are scaled down still further Young wants to push consolidation, figures his four roads "go together naturally." But before any consolidation can be made, at least two big problems must be solved: 1) how to wipe out $25,000,000 back dividends on Nickel Plate preferred; 2) what to do with $70,000,000 Alleghany Corp. funded debt...