Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early stages of recovery the heavy industries such as steel lagged behind. So it was advisable to prime the pump by public works. Now. he said, the situation was reversed. The durable goods industries were making more rapid progress than the consumer goods industries. The prices of their products were going up accordingly. For example, some mines can produce copper at 5?, or 6? a Ib, but copper was selling at 17?. And the price of steel was up $6 a ton. These prices, he intimated were too high, much more than covered increased labor costs, meant that a larger...
Toward the duck renaissance, progress should be made by a new conservation body incorporated in the U. S. last January and in Canada last week. Its name: Ducks Unlimited...
...like a fair fight. Gogarty had published in the U. S. two books of verse (Wild Apples and Selected Poems; TIME, Nov. 27, 1933) which indicated that his Joycean counterpart was merely a portrait of the doctor as a young man; this week he published a work long in progress that showed him an unmistakably three-dimensional figure, as live as a high-tension line, as individual as an Irishman...
Authorities state that his discoveries in the field of hydrogen have revolutionized the progress of research in chemistry, physics, and biology...
Juan in China, a continuation of his picaroon-hero's progress, is longer between laughs, thinned at times to the gin-&-water consistency of the late lightly lickerish Thorne Smith. Frankly a farce, Juan in China is a further disappointment to those who still hoped better things of Eric Linklater, a further confirmation to those who never expected anything better. But since by this week Juan has gone halfway home to England, hopeful readers still looked forward, thought what a really good time he and they might have if he ever gets there...