Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead of higher rates, said ICC, U.S. railroads should step up efficiency and cut costs by "bold experimentation with new devices and methods . . . imagination and ingenuity...
Metals. Copper, zinc and lead may become even scarcer. The Munitions Board, which runs the U.S. stockpile of strategic materials, said it would step up its purchases of 68 critical items to bring the stockpile up to 39% of planned size. The $525 million authorized for purchases this fiscal year, said Board Chairman Donald F. Carpenter, had already been spent or contracted for, and Carpenter will ask Congress for another $310 million. The stockpile's eventual value...
Bankers and foreign traders squawked, arguing that the plan was simply another step in a campaign to eliminate all private interests from ECA business. But ECA took the position that European aid was for Europeans and not for the bankers-and as much of it as possible should therefore go to Europe...
...eulogy. This one is neither. Gunther is interested in neither tears nor personal royalties (both his proceeds and the publisher's profits go to cancer research for children). Without fuss, in simple, almost conversational style, he expresses the love and comradeship he felt for his son, gives a step-by-step account of cancer's inexorable victory. In so doing, Gunther arouses in the reader an almost deliberate passion to help find the dark enemy and destroy...
Twenty-two men moved up a step in the University hierarchy February 1, the President and Fellows of the College announced last week. Consent for the appointments came from the Board of Overseers January...