Word: push
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Symptom of Ills. Colombia's President Alberto Lleras Camargo, who wants to eradicate the Communist enclaves and push through roads and reform, has had little success so far. Neither the Colombian army, which fought well in Korea but has little taste for guerrilla warfare, nor the bureaucrats show much initiative...
...When the push of a button may mean obliteration of countless humans, the President of the United States must be forever on guard against any inclination on his part to impetuosity, to arrogance, to headlong action, to expediency, to facile maneuvers, even to the popularity of an action as opposed to the rightness of an action...
...less expensive steel. One example: the oxygen process, by which oxygen and gas are shot into a furnace to speed up the burning of impurities. An invariable but often unintended result is extra capacity: the oxygen process can raise capacity of furnaces 10% to 20%. The new processes also push some older equipment into reserve; about 10% of all steel capacity is represented by older or less profitable equipment that steelmen use only in times of extraordinary demand...
...Nothing . . ." Roy Thomson is fond of saying: "We can expand indefinitely." Son of a Toronto barber, Thomson at 24 had managed to accumulate, and then blow, a small fortune in Saskatchewan land speculation. In 1929 he went to North Bay, Ont. to sell radios, Branched into broadcasting to push his product and in 1934, for $200 down and $200 a month, bought a moribund weekly called the Timmins Press. One of the unfledged publisher's first moves was to send dime to each of 100 small U.S. dailies, hen the copies came in, Thomson read hem and reached...
WITH KENNEDY IN CONN., Nov. 6--Pledging strong leadership for the next four years, Senator John Kennedy began his final push of the campaign today with a triumphal tour of Connecticut...