Word: growth
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...France, "is whether the less developed countries will choose the Communist system or the Western system in their struggle against poverty. The verdict will depend largely on how much the industrialized countries of the West do to help the less developed countries achieve an adequate rate of economic growth...
Another expert, University of Virginia Economist G. Warren Nutter, compared Russian economic growth to U.S. experience at about the same phase of development-between 1880 and 1920-and concludes that in these 40 years the U.S. surpassed Soviet growth in its first four decades. Soviet Russia has scored its most impressive gains in a few key fields such as steel, oil and heavy construction, whereas U.S. productive energies have ranged over a far wider spectrum, and established a much wider base. Assuming a continuous growth in the U.S. economy, Soviet output will still be badly lagging by either...
...promptly. "If this happened on the Post," said Patterson, "the story would probably have been moved from an obscure location to the front page." To which Los Angeles' Murray retorted: "That would be just as wrong as killing the story." ¶ Circulation Manager Patterson also warned that the growth of the daily press is not pacing the growth of the country. Since 1950, he said, morning papers have registered a 10% circulation increase, afternoon papers 8%, against an increase of 15% in the number of U.S. households. ¶ Foreign news reporting, said Ed Stone of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer...
...many ways to get around them. In Virginia unionists in the building trades have found a simple way to defeat the anti-closed-shop provisions of the state law: when a nonunion member shows up on a construction job, union members just get "sick" until he is fired. Union growth has hardly been hampered. Since the Virginia law was passed in 1947, union membership has grown from 100,000 to 150,000. There are other dodges to get around the restriction on the closed shop, such as the "agency" shop in which nonunion employees pay union dues...
...hurt them, they are hard put to find figures to prove it. Ed Burris, executive vice president of the Texas Manufacturers Association, cites union membership, which has grown from 110,500 before World War II to 400.000 today. He feels that the law has not inhibited the growth of unions or their functions as bargaining agents. Unionists charge that the law has had other bad effects. Jerry Holleman, head of the Texas A.F.L.-C.I.O., says the law has weakened union discipline, causing more wildcat strikes, and that the union must take many more grievance cases, often trivial ones, to arbitration...