Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Negroes: He received a group of Memphis Negroes whose spokesman quoted him as being stanchly opposed to lynching. To New York City Negroes he wired: "The progress of the Negro not only in the trades but in the arts, the sciences and the professions is a truly remarkable record...
...said of Economic Pacification: "We are likely to prefer-it is our British way-a pragmatic and practical approach, slow but sure." This, however, is not the Australian way, and that Dominion's vigorous representative, Stanley Melbourne Bruce, roundly declared to the Assembly's Economic Committee: "The progress of Science in the last 15 years has made possible efforts of production which would enable a higher standard of living to be reached than anything known in the past. Yet, because of the economic conditions prevailing in the world today, it is impossible for its people to enjoy that...
...forms. Twelve manufacturers fabricate it as artificial tile, and the toy industry takes it in hundreds of carloads. But the building industry is the big market, Presdwood being particularly adaptable to modernistic design. The Masonite house was one of the architectural high spots of Chicago's Century of Progress, was inspected by 3,000,000 people. Latest Masonite product is a laminated plastic, pressed innumerable sheets of thin Presdwood. An addition to the Laurel, Miss, plant to turn out this plastic will be ready early next year...
...plans for this year include weekly sessions which will be held on Wednesdays at 5 o'clock for those afflicted with stammering of stuttering. In these classes experiments will be made in methods of corrective treatment. There may also be formed a social group for the study of progress in adaptation...
Further facts on the semi-official progress of 1940 show that a record number, 480, filled in the "hobby"--cards which were distributed at one of the "Freshman Week" meetings. With a Class fund of $150 to back them, and administered by the Union Committee, an ample program of activities is foreseen for men with socially-united extra-curricular leanings...