Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pact was perhaps the most fateful peacetime step in U.S. diplomatic history since the Monroe Doctrine. The concern that President James Monroe had extended to the Americas, President Harry Truman had extended from the Tana to the Rhine, and perhaps to Trieste. And how did the U.S. people feel about it? The State Department, which gets bushels of letters when Palestine, China or Spain is involved, had gotten only a trickle in the 14 weeks the North Atlantic pact was being negotiated. Did this indicate apathy or agreement? As far as anxious State Department men could discern, the U.S. public...
S.R.L. thought that booksellers were as much to blame as the papers. Some, it charged, reported slow-selling books as "bestsellers" to step up sales. Others were influenced by "literary snobbishness." S.R.L. suggested an Audit Bureau of Bestsellers, to function something like the press's Audit Bureau of Circulation. It was time "that the book trade cooperated in a certified, scientific, irrefutable system...
Howard W. Emmons will step into the Gordon McKay professorship in Engineering Science, Provost Buck announced yesterday. Emmons has been associate professor of Mechanical Engineering since...
...Doxsee struck Cirrotta in the stomach. He took a step back and sat down on a divan," Tesreau said. "A couple of the guys began to tug at his sweater as if to rip it off him. He got up and apparently ordered the fellows to get out of his room...
...long the gravy train could keep running. They discussed ways of boosting their markets by 1) removing the legal restraints from margarine (which uses cottonseed oil); 2) pushing the sale of cotton bags for feed by using prints convertible to dresses (TIME, Jan. 31); and 3) getting ECA to step up 1949 exports (which would otherwise be the lowest since the Civil War). The cotton growers, who use about 10% of all fertilizer, also looked at the big use of paper bags by that industry, estimated that judicious pressure there alone could step up cotton consumption from...