Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These troubles are, simply, that (1) Europe cannot produce as well and as efficiently as the U. S.; (2) As long as this technical backwardness continues, free trade between the continents is probably impossible. This is a reasonably short-run proposition; some day technological progress may put Europe very much back on its feet. But even ECA admits this day will...
...coal miners, he was plainly proclaiming that the coal industry had declared war on widows, orphans, and the lame, halt and blind, and that a strike was in order. As John L. had prophesied, the halt in royalty payments had caused "reactions deterrent to the constructive progress of the industry...
...such programs, however, the U.S. would be guided by one underlying principle. Said Acheson, "Progress will come most rapidly to nations that help themselves vigorously...
When the morning service was over the women, in their Sunday-best print dresses, bustled off to the new basement to fix a country-style dinner. Meanwhile, Brother Robinson heard the quarterly progress reports on the three churches-Fletcher Chapel, Ebenezer Church and Pimento Church that make up 35-year-old Rev. Eldon O. Gourley's Pimento circuit...
Until now, he added, little has been done with discriminate functions when it is desired to split the population into three or four parts. The lack of progress is mainly due to the very heavy computational work that would be associated with proper formulation of such a problem. As modern computing machinery becomes available to scientists, Mosteller stated, they will no longer be so reluctant to formulate problems which require heavy computation...