Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...served Island Creek's Francis with an ultimatum: ". . . In your mad and vengeful attack on the existence of the fund, you have rightfully calculated that you are bleeding it white ... A continuation of your policy of default and smash may cause reactions deterrent to the constructive progress of the industry. Will you or will you not remit?" Lewis rumbled...
...trying to sell, he explained, was a middle way. Said Drummer Taft: "There is a middle way. We need not agree with those who want government to run their daily lives and look after the welfare of every citizen to the destruction of individual liberty and incentive and progress. On the other hand, we need not agree with those who refuse any interest on the part of the Federal Government...
Reservoir of Beauty. On its advertising message of optimism and progress, U.S. business this year is spending about $830 million in magazines and newspapers alone. At least one-third of all the advertisements bought by that staggering sum are using models. The proportion is nearer half in beer, cigarettes, cosmetics, the biggest users of models outside the fashion field. The figures add up to the simple conviction that there is nothing like a girl to catch the public's eye. Actually, with the buyers' market making the going tougher than before, the advertising business has begun to realize...
...advertising), that created the demand for-and sold-the goods which made American men & women better housed, better clothed, better groomed and better-looking than any on earth. American business civilization-leaving aside the poets and the painters-has not put its cult of beauty and its belief in progress into formal philosophies. Yet in a sense, it is writing a statement to posterity into the glossy pages and towering lights of its advertising...
Rome's opera lovers, reviewing progress since the war, and eyeing their arch operatic enemies in Milan, were delighted. Said one: "We are at least improving artistically while La Scala is living largely on its reputation...