Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Written in tones of resignation-to domestic economics and to the march of progress in Atomic Age weapons-Great Britain's message to the world was a historic landmark in military history. The British decision to convert almost completely to nuclear-armed missiles (see FOREIGN NEWS) had deep meaning for all of the world, but for the U.S. it had very special significance. Said the British White Paper: "The free world is today mainly dependent for its protection upon the nuclear capacity...
...reached Broadway; in Li'l Abner Marryin' Sam sang: Treasury says the national debt is climbing to the sky,/And Government expenditures have never been so high. But out of all the commotion came only the same old reasons why the budget is hard to cut: peace, progress and pork...
What About America? In a nation bursting at the seams with population growth and economic expansion, the price of progress reaches deep into the budget. President Eisenhower addressed himself sharply to that point before the Republican Women's National Conference in Washington last week. He had, he said, been talking to the heads of several great U.S. corporations. Each pointed to his own firm's increased budget as proof that "we are a growing company." Asked Ike: "What do you think America is?" The company heads said their budget hikes ranged from 6% to 10%. Well, said...
...Marx prediction, in the Dec. 31, 1853 Tribune, is not included in any official collection of Marx's work: "The people of the West will rise again to power and unity of purpose, while the Russian Colossus itself will be shattered by the progress of tne masses, and the explosive force of ideas...
...bookkeeper (Don Murray) is the protagonist in this Philistine's Progress. He lives with his pretty little working wife (Patricia Smith) in a small flat in a big Manhattan housing development. As the picture begins, the wife has just told him that she is going to have a baby. He is stunned. How will he ever be able to finish night school? And if he doesn't finish night school ... "I think you oughta go to this bachelor party tonight," says his wife after one look at the poor punk's face. "You oughta have a little...