Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remained for Secretary of Labor Jim Mitchell to make the first effective public reply to the political doubletalk that the G.O.P. sponsors of strong civil rights legislation are somehow standing in the way of progress by opposing the Senate's weak version. "It is very disappointing to me," said Mitchell at a news conference in San Francisco, "to see so many of those to whom we usually look for support in the field of civil rights running from the field before the whistle is blown...
...procurement of three jet fighters-Chance Vought's supersonic F8U Crusader, McDonnell's F3H Demon, Douglas' A4D Skyhawk. United Aircraft Corp. reported that its work on a nuclear-plane engine would be "drastically reduced," or scrapped altogether. And the Defense Department announced that it will trim progress payments on unfinished aircraft from 75% of the cost to 70%, forcing plane makers to find more financing in a tight-money market. Said Boeing's President William M. Allen: "This belt-tightening had to come, and it is high time that the industry and the nation faced...
...Cronin has recast historic events in a form which the Persians call dastan, i.e., "near-factual history, almost myth." But the hero of this dastan will be remembered: Ghazan Khan, nomad chief of a tribe that Cronin calls the Falqani and a man hopelessly caught in the paradoxes of progress...
...from 3% to 31%. highest in 24 years (see BUSINESS). Another way is to cut Government spending, which would mean a cut in Government-financed demand for labor. But perhaps the most important way is for organized labor and big-business management to find a temporary new definition of progress beyond Samuel Gompers' historic American Federation of Labor cry for "More...
17th Century Progress. A brilliantly organized drifter, Ritchard is up at the uncommonly early (for actors) hour of 8 a.m., makes jottings in his "unemotional" diary, breakfasts alone in his elegant West Side apartment, which was decorated for him by Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein II as a sort of tribute to the memory of his late wife. Actress Madge Elliott...