Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in the campaign the Republicans staked out "peace, progress and prosperity" as their most powerful argument for Ike's reelection. Democrats replied that the Republicans merely want to keep things as they are, and proclaimed that they saw no magic in the G.O.P. promise. Last week Vice President Richard Nixon, barnstorming through the West and Midwest on a sweeping 32-state, 15,000-mile tour, took a G.O.P. handhold on the future...
...Japan, Reischauer found healthy political, economic, and social progress since the end of the last world war. Economically, he noted the growth of factories and technical knowledge and the "modernization" of Japanese industry. He considers unlikely the prospect of any great amount of trade developing between Japan and Communist China...
...five or six different sets and a large number of short scenes in his adaptation, and the choppy effect created by the frequent changes is particularly obtrusive in the first of the three acts, which contains several unnecessary scenes and many characters who do not contribute materially to the progress of events. Even the incidental music by Josef Marais, while attractive in itself, cannot bridge all the gaps...
...million to $360 million. So fast was West Germany forging ahead of her Western neighbors in exports and payment balances that ECE cautioned that "the increasing divergence between the balance of international transactions of Western Germany and of other countries does constitute a potential threat both to the future progress of trade liberalization in Western Europe and the continued expansion of the Western European economy...
Consumer Lag. Whatever the progress in the East, the consumer was slow to benefit. In Eastern countries goods are still short, and the average worker must spend all or most of his wages just to feed himself, his wife and two children. ECE calculated that a monthly breadbasket, including just 4 Ibs. of meat. 3.3 Ibs. of butter and lard and 9 eggs per person, would cost 110% of the average worker's income in Rumania, 105% in Bulgaria, 95% in Poland, 93% in Hungary, 88% in the U.S.S.R., 77% in Czechoslovakia, 72% in East Germany. Concluded...