Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million, was ready to accept A.F.L. leadership of a united federation. On the other hand, the A.F.L. accepted some C.I.O. conditions, including strongly worded bans on inter-union raiding, union racketeering and racial discrimination. While lawyers put the agreement on paper, the labor leaders laconically announced "constructive progress." That night they went over the five-page text to tone down "emotional" language...
...Benito Mussolini sent a pickax crashing into the pavement of the Piazza Bocca della Verità to break ground for Rome's first subway. A world war and his own inglorious death interrupted the work Mussolini began. When these greater events were not threatening its progress, Italy's archaeologists poked into the subway excavation and held up the work, to make sure that the tunnelers were not destroying any buried relics of antiquity. But somehow, despite all handicaps, Rome's subway got built. Last week, after 18 years and $20 million, it was opened to the public...
...only by trial and error, by insistent scrutiny and by readiness to re-examine presently accredited conclusions that we have risen, so far as in fact we have risen, from our brutish ancestors, and in our loyalty to these habits lies our only chance, not merely of progress, but even of survival. They were not indeed a part of our aboriginal endowment: Man, as he emerged, was not prodigally equipped to master the infinite diversity of his environment. Obviously, enough of us did manage to get through, but it has been a statistical survival, for the individual's native...
SHALE OIL EXPERIMENT by the Government at Rifle, Colo, will be closed down, because private research has made so much progress on getting oil from shale. Union Oil Co., which has 50,000 acres of shale land near Rifle, has just allocated $5,000,000 to increase capacity to 1,000 tons daily, estimates there are 5 billion bbls. of oil on its land...
...assignment. If he does what he is asked, he is granted all sort of honors. He is given increases in salary, as well as being lauded as a national "hero." But if his factory falls to complete its goal, he is castigated as standing in the way of "Russian progress," and in serious cases, as standing against the revolution. To fail usually means to lose...