Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...panels of distinguished intellectuals will discuss the general topic of the Convocation: the social implications of scientific progress on the world of today...
...guarantee outside investors fair treatment, 2) make an "investment treaty" with the U.S. which would eliminate the practice of double taxation on profits earned abroad by U.S. businessmen. But Brazilians should not expect-nor should they want-such foreign investments to supply any great proportion of their capital needs. Progress, said the report, "should, in the main, be financed with domestic funds. Only thus can an excessive future burden be avoided...
...making real progress with these people," he assured me. "You know it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks. This is no quickie-it may take 10 or 20 years, maybe more. But we're getting there...
...local people to take steadily increasing responsibility. Nagasaki's normal cheerfulness has been largely restored by giving personal needs priority over industrial recovery. Food is nearly up to prewar level, with one-seventh the supply provided by America. Department stores are well stocked, especially compared to Europe. Steady progress has been made toward rebuilding the destroyed 47% of the city's housing...
Infant's Progress. Burlington's Spencer Love, a fast-moving, fast-thinking man who can keep thousands of details of his company's operations in his head, had earned his cockiness. He had parlayed a $3,000 shoestring into a textile empire that last year grossed $288 million (and netted $31.2 million). Born & bred at Harvard (where his father taught mathematics), Love came out of World War I a 23-year-old major. He took his $3,000 in savings to Gastonia, N.C., his father's home town, and got a $120-a-month...