Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three hours on end last week President Hoover and Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson sat facing each other in the White House. Solemnly they talked about the progress being made toward another conference on the limitation of naval armaments...
...year's loss is estimated at $100,000,000. The President instructed Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown to discover the causes of, to devise remedies for, these deficits (TIME, July 22). An audit of the scrambled costs of maintaining the different classes of postal service is now in progress. Last week Postmaster General Brown prepared to call into an October conference the big users of first-class mail, particularly direct-mail advertisers. Quickly spread the firm belief that the Department would recommend as a deficit-extinguisher an increase in first-class postage from...
...Incident," Scot MacDonald answered quick and short: "That is utterly absurd!" On reaching Geneva, he let it be known that he had in pocket an important declaration concerning world peace. At British delegation headquarters it was hinted that the prime minister would make at least a partial announcement of progress made thus far in his almost daily parleys' anent naval reduction with President Hoover's forthright, hubble-bubbling Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes (TIME, June...
...Five Year Economic Program," an impressive scheme of industrial and agricultural expansion by which, by 1933, he proposed to make the Soviet Union entirely self-supporting and independent of the outside capitalistic world. Last week Dictator Stalin announced his budget for 1930, published figures which, if honest, showed astounding progress made during the first of his Five Years...
...Inlets. Little progress has been made in efforts towards a national agreement to restrict production, an agreement which could end overnight any danger of oil drugging the market. Yet great hopes are held for the results of a California law which goes into effect in September. The law forbids oil production without proper efforts to conserve the natural gas which flows out with the oil. Enforcement of the law may reduce California's overproduction by some 250,000 barrels daily. California is at present yielding more oil than any other State. The result may be a reduction...