Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most conspicuous of these, in the daily news if not in person, was long-faced Harry Lloyd Hopkins, working in shirt-sleeves at his plebeian office on the top (ninth) floor of an old yellow-brick structure which houses the Works Progress Administration. Because more than 8,000,000 U. S. persons look to WPA for their toil-won bread, and because $1,425,000,000 is a lot of Government money to have to spend in an election year, Harry Hopkins has inevitably become regarded as a prime mover-and prime target-on the national political scene. To himself...
...richest, smoothest, quickest of all Spenders & Lenders is, of course, the Works Progress Administration. Having learned in previous years that announcement of the amounts of money he spends is a local publicity boomerang, Harry Hopkins talked of his plans in terms of men and jobs, not dollars. WPA's assignment is to take up unemployment slack rapidly at first, then more slowly as PWA's projects get going, then at full capacity when winter comes and heavy construction slows down. Last week WPA added 60,000 workers to its rolls, two-thirds of them in the Midwest...
...since 1919, when it was host to the scandalous Black Sox Series, had Cincinnati put on a baseball game to equal last week's sixth annual All-Star game, grown since 1933 from a side show of Chicago's Century of Progress to Baseball's No. 2 event of the year. Cincinnatians from beer-garden waiters to socialites were excited over the game. For among the picked National League players were five Cincinnati Reds, an unprecedented number for the league's perennial tail-enders and a larger representation than that of any other club. Even more...
...short, the Brookings thesis holds that industrial management has not progressed as fast or as far in its price policies as it has in its technological skill. Cynics claim that this was because Big Business designed its price policies primarily for monopolistic and profit-hogging reasons. The new Brookings book, Industrial Price Policies and Economic Progress, therefore took as its theme the factors that entered into an executive's choice of certain prices for his company's products. Lion's share of the credit for the first four volumes went to the Institution's president, bald...
...what to charge for steel. In 1911, when the Government was ready to jump on this arrangement, the industry adopted a new procedure. Since then, whenever the Government has jumped on steel price policies, the industry has been one jump ahead. Last week the third such jump was in progress...