Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany emphasized that "American labor believes that private enterprise has been and can be a great force for economic and social progress." To increase its effectiveness in helping underdeveloped nations, Meany suggested 1) an International Investment Code under which nations receiving private capital or governmental technical assistance would guarantee investors against arbitrary treatment; 2) a multi-billion-dollar International Consumers Credit Fund ito underwrite long-term installment purchasing of consumer goods...
...insuperable: 1) the surgical difficulties of making all the necessary blood-vessel connections in time, and 2) the immune reaction which causes a recipient to manufacture antibodies that destroy any foreign blood-containing tissue. Last week the American College of Surgeons meeting in Atlantic City heard reports of encouraging progress toward overcoming both obstacles...
Devices of this general type have been developed in the U.S., Britain Russia, and probably other countries. Titular chief of such research for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission is Dr. Arthur E. Ruark, 57. His job is to ride herd on projects in progress at Princeton, Livermore (Calif.), Los Alamos and other scientific centers. Probably the most ambitious of these is centered at Princeton. Its chief is Professor Lyman Spitzer Jr., 43, an astronomer who got into thermonuclear physics because the interiors of the stars are convenient test tubes for observing what happens at very high temperatures. Stars need...
...missile contractors. In fiscal 1958's first quarter the Defense Department has spent its money at the rate of $40 billion annually, $2 billion more than its $38 billion budget. To help get back in line, the Air Force proposed a temporary cut averaging 25% in its monthly progress payments for aircraft production. But the Air Force still expected the industry to maintain full delivery schedules, either by cutting costs or borrowing money to keep going. Last week the replies were in, and they added up to one loud, angry yelp. Said one planemaker: "If the Department of Defense...
...interest is his Law of the Decline and Fall of Institutions : "a perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse." Is the tourist awestruck before St. Peter's in Rome? The Popes "lost half their authority while the work was still in progress." The reign of Louis XIV, the "Sun King," began to set shortly after he settled at Versailles. On the shores of Lake Geneva stands the finest mausoleum since the Taj Mahal the Palace of the Nations, which opened in 1937 when the League of Nations "had practically ceased to exist...