Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elliott went back to his TBS, bought $75,000 worth of its stock. Hartford went back to his groceries and his worries over an anti-chain-store law which Representative Wright Patman of Texas was trying to push through Congress. If passed, the law would have cost the A. & P. many millions a year...
Bubbly, jocular General of the Army Henry H. Arnold dropped in on Guam to hunt up parking space for some of his 12,000 European combat airplanes, and prepared to realign air force commands for the big Pacific push. While 520 of his Twentieth Air Force B-29 Superfortresses bombed shuddering Osaka for the fifth time, proud Hap Arnold outlined to correspondents the kind of punishment U.S. airmen planned for Japan...
...brassbound Navy, this was quite a concession. Secretary Forrestal merged four separate Navy research agencies into one Office of Research and Inventions and gave Admiral Bowen, as chief, virtually a blank check to push the development and production of new devices for all branches of the Navy including its air forces...
...Increasing the capital gains tax would push prices up further. Higher taxes would not abate the eagerness of those who, for inflationary or other reasons, want to buy stock, but it would definitely reduce the willingness of those who might sell...
...when Corporal Peter Foley, with great Irish dignity, asked for the privilege of going first. I was prepared to go first, if occasion called, but none of us denied Foley the honor. Dorfman, we decided, was to go second because he wanted me to stand back of him and push him if he lost his nerve. Then I got in line, then Kronk, the engineer-leaving Junod still at the controls. We were at 7,400 ft., and about 1,000 ft. above the overcast...