Word: growth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also on the program is a very cogent and provocative "March of Time." Entitled "The Teacher's Crisis," it molds the usual facts, figures, speeches, and dramatic incidents into an unusually good documentary, portraying with unique clarity the malignant growth of trends such as the exodus of underpaid teachers from the profession and the slackening of registration in teachers' colleges. President Conant winds up the "March of Time" with a short speech, and is followed by Donald Duck, and Mickey Mouse, and Pete Smith, and at least one other comical feature. This procession of humor is overpowering: all but ardent...
...improvised prospect for peace between The U.S. and Russia also increases the United Nations' chance for survival and growth. All realists at the San Francisco Conference understood this. The Russians stated it most clearly, but the U.S. delegation that helped draft the U.N. Charter was also keenly and unanimously aware that they were placing the fate of U.N. upon the security of the U.S., and not vice versa...
...cities have changed even more. For the first time in Texas history, urban population had become bigger than the rural. Biggest change-and growth-is in Houston, smack in the middle of the chemical wave that has swamped the whole Gulf Coast. Before the war, greater Houston was already the crowded center of oilfields and refineries. War brought it 20% of the nation's synthetic-rubber plants and 145 major chemical plants. Postwar expansion completed the jam, with scores of new installations. Now, the skeletons of new skyscrapers fill the skyline...
...growth of the infant television industry has been stunted by a prodigious argument over its care & feeding. Should television broadcasts be in black & white or in color? Last week, after 14 weeks of weighing the testimony, the Federal Communications Commission finally ruled in favor of black & white...
After six years of working at it, Biographer Lord, a Wallace admirer and himself a farm writer and editor, takes refuge in mystical pronouncements that are as ponderous as they are unrevealing. Writes Lord: Wallace is "no chance growth. The product of an extraordinary heritage and upbringing, deeply-almost broodingly-aware of a genetic continuity in his every act, he lives, moves, and grows as a continuing force...