Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...S.O.S. last March, he revitalized Army procurement methods overnight. Soon he was bumping his head against WPB: he was dependent on WPB's raw materials and the plants it built or converted. Since WPB moved too slowly for Brehon Somervell's speedy taste, he set out to push...
...answered the prayer. The engine, a two-cycle diesel, is now being produced by an Illinois factory. Most diesels are four-cycled-three out of four piston strokes serve only to charge the cylinder for the power stroke. But in the two-cycle diesel, every downstroke has an explosive push behind it. Thus the weight of the two extra cylinders can be eliminated. Two of the lighter engines can now be installed where one was formerly used, and a lot more fuel can also be carried. Hence the new subchasers are not only twice as powerful as the old type...
...Every student should be able to chin himself ten times, push up from the ground 20 times, run 100 yards in less than 13 seconds and do the 100 yard obstacle course in 24 seconds," asserted Norman W. Fradd, assistant director of Physical Education, in defining the goal of the conditioning program...
...action will not necessarily lead either to a break in diplomatic relations or to a declaration of war. Indeed it was a hint that the U.S. would like to avoid sterner action. But it was both request and warning to Finland not to join the new big Nazi push on Russia, not to be shoved into an all-out attack on Murmansk...
...scandal which, in another country, would have cost a couple of Ministers their jobs or perhaps have toppled a whole government. Only in the past eight weeks has a new team, with a passion for anonymity, arisen in Washington to take hold of the synthetic-rubber program and push it through, come hell or high water. Only now are there some grounds for honest optimism...