Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small band of ferocious men rose from the depths to dictatorship, there to take away the guarantee of life, law and liberty." To associate British democracy with Nazi methods meant the destruction of all that the Empire ever meant: "That power which burns Christian ethics, which cheers its onward progress with barbarous paganism, which vaunts the spirit of aggression and conquest, which derives strength and pleasure from perverted persecution and uses the threat of murderous force-that power cannot ever be a trusted friend of British democracy...
...distrust of Russia, 2) his fear of Germany, 3) his criticisms of the Prime Minister's delay, 4) his attacks on Munich as paving the way for a new crisis. Vindicated above all was his vision of the ideal British Empire as a force for social progress, an ideal undermined by 20 years of jeers from the Left, indifference from the Right...
...main battle against Poland settled to a deadlock; the flank attack through the Balkans did not progress...
Main reason for Chrysler's progress profitwise was one fact: its Dodge unit is the industry's No. i earner (average 1929-37 profit $65 a car) and Dodge sales increased 98.4%-from 54,792 to 108,719 cars-nearly twice as much as Chrysler as a whole...
Measure of the technological progress of U. S. rubber engineering is the difference between a 1926 (4.40 by 21) tire and a 1938 (6.00 by 16) tire: model 1926 sold for $24, ran an average of about 14,000 miles, costing the average U. S. car owner 1.69 mills a mile; model 1938 sold for $19, ran an average of almost 27,000 miles, cost the average U. S. car owner only .73 mills a mile. The auto industry has not stood still, but it has not any better record...