Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sent to Congress a message requesting a fiveyear, $250 million federal program to expand medical research and teaching facilities. Among the appropriations suggested: $22 million for heart disease research. His report pointed up the remarkable progress in health insurance (see MEDICINE...
Alluding to his recent plea to Congress for a nine-point agriculture relief program (TIME, Jan. 23), the President wrote: "The Government can do a great deal to help people who have been left behind in the onrush of progress by undertaking special programs for raising their productivity . . . We must find ways and means of extending prosperity to the less flourishing sectors of our economy...
...these days. Western specialists do not expect to live to see Russian production overtake the U.S., but after analyzing the figures that Saburov gave out for the first time in Russia's new, sixth Five Year Plan (TIME, Jan. 23), they are becoming increasingly respectful of Soviet economic progress...
Biggest handicap to progress in the peaceful uses of atomic energy, said the report, is Government-imposed secrecy. It recommended that the Atomic Energy Commission "remove all reactor technology from the restricted data category, including such areas as fuel element fabrication and processing techniques," and keep secret only the military applications of atomic energy. As it is, private enterprise lacks the information on which it can make intelligent decisions, e.g., a utility might invest heavily in a nuclear-fission power plant when AEC is sitting on the facts about a better system...
...Progress Heritage. Russell is writing for Southern Pacific a greater saga than the one begun by famed Railroader E. H. Harriman, whose Union Pacific bought working control of the Southern Pacific in 1901 for $42 million, spent some $240 million to improve it.-It was Harriman who pioneered automatic block signals, spanned Utah's Great Salt Lake with 16 miles of embankment and twelve miles of trestle. The S.P. is the nation's second-longest railroad (after the Santa Fe); adding wholly owned affiliates and the Cotton Belt, which it controls (88%), it is the longest, with...