Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India 400 millions, in Burma 17 millions, in Indonesia 72 millions made notable strides toward national independence, without showing much evidence of progress in self-government...
...York sessions of U.N. and the Foreign Ministers the going got sticky again. Byrnes asked Molotov, who likes a little bullbatting himself, up to his room in the Waldorf-Astoria. Informally, the two began to make progress. When the formal sessions ended, Byrnes had a deal on Trieste, Molotov had agreed to discuss treaties with Germany and Austria, and the U.S. resolution on disarmament had passed the U.N. Assembly...
...long run, for example, it would not be enough to stop Russian political penetration in Persia; the full exercise of U.S. leadership would require that the U.S. help the Persian Government toward economic progress and political democracy for the Persian people. Otherwise, many of them would be attracted toward Communism, as they were last year. This problem existed throughout the Middle East, over much of Europe, the whole Far East and parts of Latin America. On its solution depended not only the U.S. world position, but also the lasting peace which the world sought so feverishly in 1946. That...
...number representing the percentage of radio sets-in-use which are tuned to any sponsored show, based on a telephone poll of listeners, conducted while the show is in progress by the research firm of C. E. Hooper...
...experience"), of some of his views on Caribbean policy and on colonial policy in general. A fat, rambling, earnest, occasionally angry, sometimes eloquent book, it is full of Olympian judgments, professional footnotes, diary extracts and side remarks on subjects as remote as the writings of Vincent Sheean or the progress of the Pacific naval war. But the main theme is clearly and realistically developed. It may shock the kind of complacent liberal who assumes that Puerto Rico's troubles could be solved in short order if only some New Dealer would come along, ease out the "big sugar interests...