Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Right now, say in October, we might storm the Continent and lose a couple of corps in doing it, but we would be there and we would push ahead. It might be a good idea to lose thousands and thousands, to martyr a per cent of our forces in order to chop a couple of years off the war. The casualties would be large but they would have to be suffered. . . . The martyr idea and the reduction of the war by two years might be a good plan, but remember I said it might...
However gratifying to cotton farmers, the U.S. could have got along without most of this fiber, could really use the peanuts, soybeans and hogs which might have been grown instead. On Aug. 1 the U.S. had 10,590,000 bales of cotton in warehouses; the new crop will push total supplies to about 25,000,000 bales-enough to last two years, even at the present record consumption rate...
Germany was taking it. The greatest air offensive in military history hammered day & night at her factories, her transportation system and the morale of her people. It had not yet reached the fury of a systematic 1,000-planes-a-night push against her 31 key cities (TIME, Sept. 7). Yet Germany was suffering vaster and more continuous blows than Britain took in the blitz of 1940's autumn, and she was taking them from instruments vastly improved in destructive power...
Radio's Superman must have a greater respect for rationalities than he has in comics or movies. Though he can still whiz through the air or break down a wall with his fist, he can push over no buildings, perform no miracles that sound cannot easily convey. Clayton's transformation from the scoop-seeking reporter, Clark Kent, to the mythical Man of Iron is accomplished by carefully deepening his voice and having all companions faint, while he slips on Superman clothes. Superman's monologues must be cut to a minimum, suspense maintained by worrying listeners...
Meanwhile James Caesar Petrillo had another battle on his hands. Next fortnight the Government hopes to slap an injunction on Petrillo to end his boycott against recordings. On hand to push the Government's case will be Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold. So far Trust-Buster Arnold has had no great success in his brushes with organized labor. But this time he has popular opinion behind him. A Gallup Poll question, "Do you approve or disapprove of the Government taking legal action to stop Petrillo?" turned up a 73% chorus of ayes...