Word: headway
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...Augarten finally took off after finals in 1948 without telling his family he was going. After landing in Italy he proceeded to Czechoslovakia and trained for several weeks. The Czechs, he explained, are helping Palestine, but realize that Communism can make no headway against Zionism, which in a nationalistic movement...
...voice from White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. It was soft and low, but it was the voice of John L. Lewis. He had a message for "the able Mr. Green." Making no mention of his own many troubles (his 385,000 striking coal diggers are making little headway), John L. proposed that the A.F.L. join with him to help Phil Murray's C.I.O. fight against "the giant adversaries which would decimate one by one the major units of organized labor...
...check riverbank erosion, supply fuel. "Even when I was a little boy," he once explained, "I liked to plant trees. In Chinghai, trees mean greenery and water, life and abundance. I sought to persuade my kin and friends to plant trees. I had no power then and made little headway. But as governor I acquired the power to persuade...
...color (not yet ready to market), and a system of Polaroid automobile headlights and visors for glareless night driving. But since the superbrilliant lights used in the Polaroid system would require equipping all the 33,225,000 cars on the road at the same time, the system made little headway. Nevertheless, with such new products as the camera and filter screens for television sets, Polaroid is finally in the black and hopes to stay there...
Alberto Dodero laid a course toward the big time when as a young man he moved from Montevideo to Buenos Aires and added to the family business a freighter bought on credit. He quickly gathered headway. At the end of World War I, with a credit of $10 million, he got 148 surplus U.S. ships, resold them at a handsome profit. Then he bought into the Mihanovich Line in his adopted Argentina, owned it 15 years later. By World War II, Dodero had over 300 ships, plus a choice assortment of real estate and other properties...