Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nominated, to succeed Paul V. McNutt as Ambassador to the Philippines, Kentucky's onetime Representative Emmet O'Neal, whose ability to push Philippine interests in Congress may make up for his lack of diplomatic experience...
...that fact last week by a Labor Party pamphlet which bluntly restated Labor's foreign policy. It will hear more this week, when party delegates convene for their annual conference at Margate (Britain's Atlantic City). There the party "rebels" (Nye Bevan, Dick Grossman et al.) will push their attacks against Ernie Bevin's foreign policy. They accuse him of 1) turning Britain into a Guam by undue dependence on the U.S., 2) being too hostile to Russia. The party's pamphlet, called Cards on the Table (a favorite Bevinism), admittedly is a defense against these...
...part of a plane's noise comes from the engine exhaust. Up to 95% comes from the propeller, whose fast-moving tips stir up racketing sound waves. To eliminate the waves, NACA designed a five-bladed prop, which looks like a five-petaled flower. It gives plenty of push when driven (through reduction gears) at a comparatively slow 1,000 r.p.m. The broad, leisurely blades do their work in near silence...
...London, Rex Beach, Irvin Cobb and Ring Lardner to such post-World War I stars as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Clarence Budington Kelland, Katharine Brush and J. P. Marquand. What they gave the Post was not always their best, but it was their slickest, and it was good enough to push circulation beyond...
Back in Britain after a five-month U.S. vacation were the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, who would presently push on to the south of France for a vacation. Might the Duke be looking for a job? asked a reporter. "Well, I might some time, but I have nothing definite in mind," replied the Duke. "I never take life easy," he added. "I never have and I never shall...