Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Scher's proposed system, the new foods committee would be directly responsible to the Council. In addition to examining food quality, preparation, and purchase, the three-man group would make bi-weekly progress reports, preparatory to a full-length report to the Council and student body...
Playwright Mary Drayton has tried to exploit the traditional Southerner's predicament in a time when deep-seated customs must die in face of social progress. She has brought to this situation the modern, probably Yankee assertion, that it's quite proper to mess around sexually with someone before marriage, the better to suit one's mate later. The two require a good deal of delicacy in treatment, particularly if the play has no moral resolution. Unhappily, the makers of Debut have used a heavy hand...
...Fenner expects slow progress in the future, due to a conflict with an overlapping drive by the Armenian General Benevolent Union. Both Fenner and Richard N. Frye, associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies, last night expressed hope that the Benevolent Union will contribute from $15,000 to $25,000 toward the chair...
...Progress' Casualties. Russell has virtually written off passenger operations as a perpetual profit-loser, but his freight business grows as new companies move in. Every day at least one new company chooses a site on S.P.'s right of way; 15,000 new freight cars are on order. Southern Pacific's 1954 net of $48.7 million made it the third most profitable U.S. railroad (after Union Pacific and Santa Fe), and 1955 profits reached $56 million. To continue to earn such good profits, Russell believes that railroads must change with the times. Instead of carping about airlines...
Wolfson will not sell the 59,000 shares of Ward stock he and his family own, believes that "under its present management, Montgomery Ward cannot fail to continue its progress." Since the proxy fight started, Ward progress has already brought Wolfson dividends of more than $600,000 and a paper profit of $857,000 at Ward's current market price...