Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still, he stayed alert for trouble. The "Little White House" (the frame house of the base commandant) was connected by through wires to Washington and by radiophone to George Marshall in Moscow, from whom he got at least two progress reports...
Penman's Progress. Some of the things Japanese unions do would make Tom Girdler scream for John L. Lewis. Japanese labor techniques grew out of the Japanese worker's effort to reconcile the paternalistic structure of Japan's industry with relatively alien class-struggle ideas. The labor-relations adventures of the Pilot Fountain Pen Co. is a microcosm of this effort...
...Experiments. Liveliest subject : the dog shortage. The doctors agreed that anti-vivisectionists and other organized dog lovers who care more for a few dogs than for millions of human beings were blocking medical progress.* Said Dr. Carl J. Wiggers of Western Reserve University: "We may have millions for research . . . but if we have no dogs, this foundation may as well fold...
From the College tournament last fall and from practices new in progress, Barnaby has some idea of where the talent lies; Ted Backe '48, who ranked twelfth among the National Juniors before the war seems to be a likely contender for the number one slot, while Max Tufts '45 and Bill Wightman '49, captain and number two man on the squash team respectively, also seem sure of posts on the team...
...Grass (MGM) lasts only a couple of hours, but it is possible to age a lot during that time. The story is a duel between conservative Cattleman Spencer Tracy and progressive Attorney Melvyn Douglas. Which shall make use of the prairie-the cattle, which will leave it as God made it, or homesteading farmers who (Mr. Tracy keeps warning) will skin it alive? Since Lawyer Douglas has Progress and the Federal Government on his side, the homesteaders eventually...