Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strong with the weak, eliminate wasteful competition, put all roads on a profitable basis. Professor William Zebina Ripley of Harvard produced for the Commission a merger plan in 1921 which caused such dissension that it was quickly junked. Vainly the Commission wrestled with the Congressional order, made no apparent progress. Impatient at the delay, some roads (Nickel Plate, Baltimore & Ohio, Northern Pacific) brought in voluntary merger plans only to have the Commission reject or ignore them. The Commission begged Congress to relieve it of the duty of framing a general plan. Congress did nothing. Finally, this year, the Commission buckled...
...live!") In the royal palace diplomats danced with Jugoslavian beauties. Troops marched and countermarched on the parade ground. Jugoslavian bunting draped public buildings. In New York Consul-General Radoyé Yankovitch gave a birthday luncheon at which U. S. Minister to Jugoslavia John Dyneley Prince announced that "progress in Jugoslavia is rapid," and Dr. John H. Finley of the New York Times made the striking statement that "there is no better liberty than under a good King...
...four brothers, George, Harry, Ralph and Alfred. He was born in southern Minnesota of Norwegian stock, was raised to follow his father into law. In the summer of 1900, after much persuasion, the elder Lomen took Carl to Nome for the summer. The Nome gold rush was in progress and Lomen Sr. found many a client there while his son prospected the territory. Their visit lasted two years, then father and son returned to St. Paul, but only to pack up the family and move back to Nome. They prospered, the father became Mayor of Nome, the sons became miners...
...situation has been built up on the assumption that there is nothing illegitimate in the use of war as an instrument of national policy, and as a necessary corollary that position and the rights of neutrals are entirely independent of the circumstances of any war which may be in progress...
Unlike the Almanach de Gotha's authors, who maintain a ponderous delitescence, are the British editors of Jane's Fighting Ships. They preface their pages of photographs, statistics and "recognition silhouettes" of the world's warships with a brief foreword reviewing the year's progress in warship building, the outlook for the year to come. Chief comments: "It is difficult to imagine that present proposals for the abolition of the submarine have any chance of success." "The 10,000-ton Washington treaty type of cruiser will prove of very doubtful value for future naval operations...