Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other areas are still nebulous and require a good deal more work. Probably the area of chief interest to most educators concerns effectiveness. The problem might be settled thus: When conventional instruction is channeled over a television system and is compared with similar direct instruction, do the televiewing students progress an equal or a less amount than the non-televiewers...
...Progress & Places...
...report on the Intracoastal Waterway deserves the highest of praise. The waterway has indeed opened up the Gulf's vast natural resources at bargain-basement prices. TIME editors and reporters are doing a wonderful job enlightening the people of the U.S. and the world on the progress of places that seemed, a few years ago, too remote and profitless to develop...
...tons, brown coal up to 200 million tons, electricity up to 29 billion kw-h for 1,955, all double the 1936 output and way ahead of the wartime peak in 1943. Western authorities tend to accept these statistics, admit that the industrious Germans have made remarkable progress since 1950 by putting everyone to work and using women in backbreaking men's jobs...
Consumer Pinch & Cars. For all the progress, East Germany is the only satellite where food is still rationed. By most economic standards, East Germany is being far outdistanced by West Germany. At the end of its first five-year plan in 1955, the Soviet zone (pop. 18 million) fell short of its quota for new housing by completing only 215,000 new dwellings, while West Germany (pop. 50 million) was finishing more than 2,000,000. In roughly the same period, real wages went up 50% in the East, 100% in the Bonn Republic. Last week West Germany released...