Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Troy, N. Y., a WPA foreman saw a motorist drive smack into a road construction project. The foreman bawled: "What have you got above your eyebrows?" Above the eyebrows was the skimpy-haired pate of Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, who later chuckled: "It's a great thing to be deflated. I found out I wasn't such a big shot...
...newspapers. With mild irony Mr. Cohen, who is a house painter, said that he could not see what all the excitement was about, since it did not look as if there was any money in it. Teacher Bibel was divided between his pride in Alfred's progress and his fear that the boy might get a swelled head...
...Unity Daily Word, Progress, Good Business, Weekly Unity, Unity, Unity Sunday School Leaflet, Wee Wisdom (for children...
...steel and cement, that some sort of price stabilization : needed to prevent local monopolies (TIME, July 11). Maybe so, concedes Dr. Nourse but this cannot be justified in the long run for it means conducting industry in the interest of the inefficient and disregarding the advantages of technological progress...
...AMERICA'S CAPACITY TO PRODUCE, Edwin G. Nourse & Associates; AMERICA'S CAPACITY TO CONSUME, Maurice Leven, Harold G. Moulton, Clark Warburton; THE FORMATION OF CAPITAL, Harold G. Moulton; INCOME & ECONOMIC PROGRESS, Harold G. Moulton...