Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Secretary Marshall went on the air to expand that theme. After painstakingly reviewing the tedious hours of conference haggling, he said: "Despite the disagreements . . . and the difficulties encountered, possibly greater progress towards final settlement was made than is realized. The critical differences were for the first time brought into the light and now stand clearly defined so that future negotiations can start with a knowledge of exactly what the issues are that must be settled...
...dissident, anti-Communist Social ists under Giuseppe Saragat have made no progress since their secession (TIME, Jan. 20). The one anti-Communist party which has done relatively well is Gian, nini's nee-Fascist Common Man movement, which appeals to many disillusioned Christian Democrats. It points up the obvious but disastrous desire (which helped Hitler and Mussolini to power) to fight Communism with typical totalitarian methods...
Doctors give part of the credit to penicillin and other new drugs; e.g., deaths from pneumonia, 1930's big killer of youngsters under four, have been cut to onefourth. But medicine has made progress all along the line. Thanks to public-health campaigns and education of parents in diet and child care, there have been far fewer deaths from contagious diseases, tuberculosis, appendicitis, diarrhea, intestinal disease, rheumatic fever...
Despite the failure of the four Foreign Ministers to agree on major issues, Marshall advised that "possibly greater progress towards final settlement was made than was realized...
...speech delivered to the Princeton Undergraduate Bicentennial Conference Saturday afternoon, Student Council President Richard G. Axt '46 outlined the progress, and purposes of the University's General Education program as it appears to men enrolled in the courses...