Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...date, the Administration has tended to rationalize its space program as part of a prestige battle with no driving belief in the necessity of securing space objectives-or so its erratic progress on the space program indicates. Gimmicks, as the President's "voice rocket" proved last year, are shortlived and ineffectual. Prestige for unnumbered years will go automatically to the nation that is successful in reaching the moon and making it a steppingstone to further space exploration. And the nation that first lands men and instruments on the moon will be the one whose political and economic outlook becomes...
Compelled by the Soviet's purposeful drive for the moon, stirred by the American tradition and man's limitless yearning to challenge the unknown, the U.S. has a new adventure in store, an old promise to keep-to its own pride, to progress, and perhaps to survival...
...asked New England Missionary John Eliot in 1647, "are Strawberries sweet and Cranberries sowre?" The reason in those days was that cranberries needed sugar. But progress took care of that, and the cranberry has since nourished into a $45 million-a-year business, graced Thanksgiving tables in sauces and jellies, and even-when its juice is mixed with gin-in a concoction called swampfire. But mixed with Arthur S. (for Sherwood) Flemming, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, the cranberry last week turned out to be something more powerful: pandemonium...
...promising new weapon in the drug treatment of breast cancer. Dr. Albert Segaloff, of New Orleans' Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, described the paradoxical chemical and its promising performance to 750 experts gathered in Washington by the Public Health Service's Cancer Chemotherapy National Service Center to report progress on the most active sector of the anticancer front (TIME, July...
...guests of the Navy will fly a planeload of businessmen and scientists to inspect a new system being used by the Navy to speed production of new weapons. The system, called Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) was set up to schedule and keep under continuous review the progress of the Polaris missile program, an administrative task rivaling the Manhattan Project in complexity. Thanks largely to PERT, the Polaris missile is programed to be operational in late 1960, two years ahead of schedule...