Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bunnies Lack Push...
...after the score, and neither team was able to gain an advantage. A few times Leverett got the ball and seemed to be getting started as fullback and Captain Dick Jayson squirmed through the Deacen defense for a few large gains. But the Bunnies couldn't muster the necessary push in the pinches and were forced to punt...
...Hearst picked Brisbane to push Mirror circulation to a million. Unable to do so, he ruthlessly cut expenses, rhapsodized over successmen, dictated editorials at the rate of 39 in three hours...
...regulars back in the fold, the Ramblers are further strengthened by the addition of a few mighty-capable Sophs and by Dick Loomis, last fall's all-House center, who transferred from Winthrop. Eliot remains an unknown power, but it is doubtful if the Elephants can master enough push to topple the Ramblers, even though they boast of a "mystery" back...
Freight-car facts of last week: only Bethlehem Steel, which makes its own plates, was able to push its August output (599 cars) above July (244). Even Bethlehem produced cars at only 75% of rated capacity; American Car & Foundry turned them out at only 18% of capacity in August, Pullman-Standard at 15%; the industry as a whole was at less than 50%. For the first eight months of 1941, only 49,134 new cars were put into service v. 44,791 last year, but on Labor Day the railroads had 92,033 cars on order (v. 18,456 last...