Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When are we going to get over being so "techy" about Yankee interference that we let it throw us completely off guard against our own little ignoramuses, who push their way up by inviting criticism and then shoutting "Yankee interference"-who promote fear by shouting "white supremacy...
Step by step, the Army was approaching the push-button millennium when giant military rockets will travel thousands of miles cargoed with wholesale death. Recently, at White Sands, N.M., a German V-2 roared up 104 miles, 20.5 miles higher than the previous record. In its nose it carried an armored capsule packed with instruments for observing pressures, temperatures and cosmic rays...
...imaginative technicians, would be a motor using atomic energy direct. This would be possible if "fissionable material" could be made to "explode slowly" like the propellent material in a bazooka projectile. The products of the slow explosion would have to stream out in one direction, giving a powerful, sustained push in the opposite direction. The obstacles blocking either approach were admittedly enormous. "Even contemplating the problems," said an Air Forces spokesman last week, "makes the viscera of some of us refuse to function...
Within a minute, the air shock wave hit the Appalachian with the concussion of a 16-in. gun fired close at hand. The ship had already felt the underwater blast, like the push of a nearby depth charge...
...Baltimore, Denver and Los Angeles) had net sales of $202,449,639. Kaufmann's hit $43,904,188. Kaufmann's Edgar J. Kaufmann will be a vice president of the new firm; May's Morton May is expected to be top man. Together, they hope to push sales up to $300 million this year, a figure Macy's hopes to meet...