Word: shove
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such stipulations put great railroad executives to tussling like small boys. The eastern railroad situation became a melee where each one of the big participants tried to do at least three things at once?grab as many prosperous small railroads as possible, shove his opponent away from good roads towards poor ones, avoid kicking the I. C. C. (i.e., the public's interests). The railroads soon recognized that such promiscuous buffeting was unprofitable. For one thing, the turmoil made their customers aware that not yet were all great corporations "good corporations," like Judge Gary's U. S. Steel Corp...
...British Stevenson Act controlling the production of rubber in the Orient expires Nov. 1. London despatches last week reported British and Dutch rubber plantation owners, who control the world's present output, conferring to form a private group to restrict rubber production, to create an artificial shortage, to shove prices...
...footer, winner of the last trans-Atlantic race (in 1905), finished almost a day later than the Elena. Said her skipper, Charles Francis Adams, 62, lawyer, descendant of two U. S. presidents: "We never had more wind than we wanted and half the time we had hardly sufficient to shove us, but just the same it was a wonderful cruise and if we hadn't been racing it would have been perfect." Then little Pinta and Mohawk, big Guinevere and Zodiac, arrived at Santander. But no word had been heard from Azara, and little Rofa had been demolished...
...whose influence counted. Men had called him another Cincinnatus. He let his friends play up the farm idea and prepared to be called from the plow. . . . But he answered curtly the reporters who questioned him. Once, at the Kansas City railroad station, he gave a Hearst newshawk an ungentle shove and said: "You newspaper men will get along better with me if you wait until I have something...
City. Where the Kaw River empties into the Missouri and the Missouri starts an eastern sweep to get on over and join the Mississippi, is the bottom of a great basin and a natural site for human habitation. They say you could give a freight car a shove anywhere within 300 miles of where the rivers meet (except eastward) and it would coast down to the Kansas Cities. Of these there are two. a small one in Kansas, a larger one (383,100 population) across the Kaw in Missouri. They are "the gates to the Southwest," "the continent...