Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile strong possibilities developed that a counter drive was afoot to introduce a company union. It was believed that primary purpose of this move is to offset the startling progress made during the last two weeks by cooks, waitresses and bus boys towards permanent organization...
This week's first nighters entered through the columned porch of the old hotel, under the same overhanging iron-grilled balcony, to the transformed lobby. Off the horseshoe of boxes on the second level was a bar decorated with mural reproductions of Hogarth's "Rake's Progress." Rakes who sought anything stronger than soda pop were disappointed, for South Carolina does not permit the sale of alcoholic drinks in theatres...
...years the U.S.S.R. has carefully watched the progress of invention in other countries, has tried generally with success to buy samples of many of the newest and best machines in order to copy them for home production. Thus it is possible in the vast Soviet Union to see the newest machinery, the latest street car, the last word in streamlined busses-imported as models. The Soviet is presently to see the world's newest, biggest airplane-built in the U. S.-long before any such craft exists in any other country. Last week, after months of secret construction, this...
...rats but now graced by two artificial lakes, handsome landscaping. Only building finished is the Administration Building where most of the Fair Corporation's 900-odd employes work and where dressy President Whalen holds forth in a copper-lined board room. Like the Chicago A Century of Progress, the Administration Building is showily modern, as apparently will be most of some 350 other projected buildings which eventually will jam the site's 1,200 acres. Most of the New York Fair's space has already been let and last week Japan contracted to rent...
...very different color from the Paris Exposition. Instead of a government-conceived, directed and subsidized essay in national propaganda, it is a privately-conceived and financed attempt by New York businessmen to drum up new trade. Inspired by the success in this respect of the Chicago A Century of Progress in 1933-34, 118 leading New Yorkers in 1935 formed New York World's Fair 1939 Inc., a nonprofit, nonstock corporation whose officers get no remuneration. New York City is crashing through with about $25,000,000, New York State with $10,000,000, but this...