Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problems, private and public. Labor Day was at hand, there was a tang of autumn in the air, and the children had to be outfitted for school. The glare of U.S.rockets had mostly quieted the nervous outcry that arose after the Soviet's Sputnik I, and U.S. missile progress was continuing apace. The U.S. Capitol, seething with the great labor-reform battle, was buried in a Niagara of mail from the home folks. Western Union's Capitol branch put its employees on a twelve-hour overtime schedule to handle the torrent of telegrams. (Higher above Capitol Hill, workmen...
...prospect of anything but a stalemate at Geneva. Looking ahead to the conference's end, Herter saw two possibilities, both unpleasant: a dangerous hotting-up of the Berlin crisis or a face-losing Western agreement to go to the summit despite President Eisenhower's public avowals that progress at Geneva was a precondition to a summit meeting. As a way of avoiding both alternatives, Herter urged the President to invite Khrushchev to the U.S. Ike had often discussed the pros and cons of a Khrushchev visit with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles; he agreed with Herter that...
...Khrushchev has without question made marked progress in increasing the supply of consumer goods since 1953, but the U.S.S.R. is not likely to "catch up" with the U.S. in seven years as Khrushchev promised, or in 17 years...
Surprisingly, it was in the Chinese Medical Journal (which prints a lot of unscientific Communist quackery) that major progress was reported. T'ang Fei-Fan and colleagues in Peking described scrupulously conducted experiments in which they grew generations of the virus in fertilized eggs, gave it to monkeys, which got something like trachoma...
...ordinary business notice was the letter posted by the Finance Ministry in Santiago last week, urging government contractors to stop in and pick up their monthly checks-cashable immediately. In Chile, where contractors are resigned to waiting years for the government to pay, it was a sign of real progress. In the nine months since Paper Tycoon Jorge Alessandri, 63, moved in as President on a free-enterprise platform, the longtime degeneration of the national economy has been halted, even reversed in spots. Items on the ledger...