Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question of Hume not by baffling the grader or fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we first note the progress of that age on all its intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...them. In Brazil, despite all efforts to build more schools, only half the children are getting a grade school education, only 6% high school training. Concludes the Population Reference Bureau: "Until a new 'vital balance' is achieved-a low birth rate balancing a low death rate-economic progress and better living conditions for each citizen will be very difficult to attain, if not impossible...
...business leaders, alarmed at the city's skid, formed a nonprofit organization called Civic Progress, Inc. It backed Engineer Raymond Roche Tucker, for mayor. Back in the late 1930s, Tucker had come up with a plan to eliminate the city's then notorious smog cover by cutting down the amount of volatile fuel used by industry. He later was named chairman of the department of mechanical engineering at St. Louis' Washington University. Democrat Tucker gave up his $20,000-a-year job for the $10,000-a-year mayor's post...
...says: "I challenge them, because they're passe. Louella has a gushing attitude toward the whole industry and neither she nor Hedda writes her own column. Hedda's not a writer. I am. I've written books and novels." She has, at that. One work in progress: Woman of the Worldmanship, originally titled Hollywood Be Thy Name...
Unexpected Boom. The American occupation triggered the modernization of Japan's steelmaking. Occupation planners declared the steel industry essential, thus enabling it to progress from a complete halt in production on V-J day to an output of 6,000,000 tons by 1951, when the peace treaty was signed. At the same time, the old government monopoly, Japan Steel & Iron Co., was broken up into Yawata Iron & Steel Co. and Fuji Iron & Steel Co., currently Japan's two largest producers. Encouraged by the authorities, competition flourished; today Japan has 62 steelmakers. But 55% of production is still...