Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...failed, then no single fact could be "more disturbing to the peace of mind of the people." But certain tests of AEC's efficiency could be applied, among them: "what is the state of our atomic weapons," how big is the stockpile, how much progress has been made in new weapon design? The record, he had written, "is a proud one." Now, on the witness stand, he invited the committee to ask some 30 prominent scientists and industrialists what they thought of AEC. The joint committee itself, he said, had enough information to determine whether the program had been...
...Acheson bluntly said that, to the best of his knowledge, East Germany was a deficit economy in which the Russian state had taken possession of a third of all industrial enterprise. Vishinsky painted a different picture of East Germany. Its industrial output, he said, was 96.6% of 1936-more progress than the 90% claimed for West Germany. Britain's Ernest Bevin, cigarette drooping from a corner of his mouth, thanked Vishinsky for "this tableau of Oriental prosperity," promised to bring it to the attention of the "thousands of refugees" from Soviet Germany...
...Progress and the outside are things we know little about, sen∼or," said a white-suited old Bolivian in Trinidad, center of a declining cattle industry. "What we have here is tranquility." He spat into a mud puddle in front of the municipalidad (city hall). "There are only six cars in all of Trinidad. We prohibit them from running when it rains. They make mudholes and get stuck. Besides, they run down our chickens and pigs...
...David Rohr, '50, of Detroit, and Adams House received a $50 prize for showing the greatest promise among undergraduates who concentrate in History and Literature. Another History and Literature prize of $50 was won by Carl Rudolph Triebs '51 of Milwaukee and Little Hall for making the most notable progress during the past year among Sophomore concentrators in the department...
...statement continued to say that apart from its implications for academic freedom, such a policy might reduce the effectiveness of scientific research, drive away brilliant students, reduce the free flow of ideas, and finally,".... alienate scientists, discouraging them from participation in government-sponsored research, thus retarding the progress of work vital to the national safety and welfare...