Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atomic Energy Commission, Chairman Alexandre Parodi called an A.E.C. meeting to protect its prerogatives. Bernard Baruch of the U.S. summarized the A.E.C.'s findings to date, repeated the proposals which he had been making all along. For reasons entirely outside the A.E.C. negotiations (possibly including lack of progress in Russian laboratories), the U.S.S.R. was now making the sort of concession that Mr. Baruch had been stubbornly demanding. But the Russians last week were bypassing Baruch, whom they still attack bitterly. Pravda recently printed a cartoon showing the silver-haired elder statesman gardening among the atoms (see cut). The words...
Last week the President also: ¶ Followed the progress of new Treasury Minister Ramón Beteta's talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snyder. Mexico reportedly wants $400 million for more industrialization...
...country needs all the well-educated people of high calibre that it can get," continued Compton, and indicated that financial difficulties are keeping many of the nation's best men out of college at a time when there is a need for continued scientific progress...
...interest, as do the Harvard book prizes, awards of books by Harvard men or staff members to outstanding secondary school students across the country. The book prizes also put the University in direct contact with secondary school students allowing members of the faculty to seek out and watch the progress of prospective Freshmen. Other club activities show even more the serious nature of the work of the alumni. Little of the rollicking comradery of the usual "old-grad" gathering is present at the meetings of Harvard Clubs. Discussion, symposia and lectures dealing with topics of current interest take the major...
...liberal ruler, but as a feudal baron eager for an absolute dictatorship. Returning G.I.'s, foreign correspondents, and Madame Sun Yat Sen question the pledges of Chiang, with tales of concentration camps, gruesome political murders, and widespread governmental corruption. The reports state that instead of the supposed progress in Nationalist controlled areas, China is still wallowing in the same old rut of poverty, famine, and ignorance, under the yoke of a regime unsupported by a great majority of the people. These generally obscured accounts seem to indicate that Chiang is in no sense of the word, a "democrat...