Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blighted miles of hot sand have been made fit places to live in. Think of it! One day worth nothin' 'cept to go crazy thirstin' and watchin' vinegarroons crawlin' by the cacti, and today worth one billion dollars in taxable property! That's progress for ye, mister, that's progress...
...continue in business without reducing wage costs, labor relying on the Administration's oft-reiterated stand that cutting wages is against the best interests of the U. S. Messrs. Leiserson, Beyer and Cook last week hoped to settle the wrangle, but most observers guessed that the case would progress to the final stage provided by the Railway Labor Act-either appointment of an emergency investigating board by the President or arbitration by a group jointly appointed by the opposing sides...
...softness and absorptive qualities. Two other factors help explain why Scott's big Fourdrinier machines now work a 24-hour day seven days a week (one of them has done so since 1924). As pointed out in the latest Brookings Institution tome, Industrial Price Policies and Economic Progress (TIME, July 18), Scott has led the industry in price-cutting, now sells ScotTissue at 10? a roll compared to 45? during the War. Secondly, Scott's advertising has been persistent and effective, if somewhat outspoken. In 1932 this advertising reached a pinnacle, which Scott officials recall with obvious pain...
...spent over $500,000,000 building parks and boulevards, announced a plan to take cyclists off the streets. Throughout parks and along drives in New York's five boroughs, he proposed to build 58.75 miles of winding, four-lane pedaling parkways, submitted his scheme to the Works Progress Administration for approval. As part of a 30-month park project, WPAsters will lay hard-surfaced paths, make grade crossings, erect highway signs and red-&-green traffic lights...
...half-dozen leading U. S. publishers, who are bidding for his incomplete next book. Sums bid have not been disclosed, but are called "tremendous," meaning, probably, somewhere between $10,000 and $25,000. That publishers are bidding on a good thing seems reasonably sure. Freud's work-in-progress is a psychological study of the Old Testament, with special emphasis on Moses (who, thinks Freud, was Egyptian, not Jewish); his theme, that the Bible is an unconscious expression of man's own fears and aspirations. (This thesis he first broached 25 years ago in Totem and Taboo...