Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carbon monoxide; farmlands are sliced into pieces that can no longer be economically worked. The uprooted may agree with Seattle Art Dealer Zoe Dusanne, whose home and gallery overlooking Lake Union will soon disappear before the Everett-Seattle-Tacoma Freeway. Says she: "I'm a great believer in progress. But what a pity progress has to cost so much...
...thrust upon the U.S. responsibilities and commitments that neither Roosevelt nor Wilson ever confronted. Ten years ago most U.S. citizens could share the traditional American concept of colonialism as unrelieved oppression and exploitation. Today's U.S. leaders are aware that colonialism has often been an instrument of progress, that the world's problems cannot be solved by simply taking an anticolonial stand in every circumstance...
...Just such an incident was the theme of J. B. Priestley's antiwar melodrama called Doomsday for Dyson, which millions of Britons saw over TV. At Birmingham University a student "peace committee" put on a showing of the film, The Shadow of Hiroshima. The press reported daily the progress of a survey being made of university students by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Though the results were hardly conclusive -e.g., only 1,330 out of London University's 24,000 students even bothered to answer the questionnaire-the press gave the distinct impression that those who favored banning...
Last week Dr. Thorek told the International College of Surgeons meeting in Los Angeles how he had routed out his cameramen at 1 a.m. when he got the call to operate on Andy. The resulting films showed the X ray and progress of the operation. Under general anesthesia he cut out Andy's fifth rib, pumped out the milk and cola, worked around the heart to get at the esophagus. Then he sewed up the hole. Andy's recovery was complicated by infection in the chest cavity, but antibiotics took care of that...
Securities and Exchange Commission staff actually is smaller now than in 1951. Progress has made some agencies obsolete. The Interstate Commerce Commission, established to protect the public from railroad monopoly, has been outmoded by the growth of competing trucks, buses and airlines. Its tight control of railroad routes and rates, which of.ten keep the railroads from cutting to compete, has a strangling effect. Many transportation experts feel that the ICC should be abolished...