Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...society could operate at all when profits are allowed to be earned and disposed of as we do it. . . . It is necessary to realize quite finally that everything will be changed if the linking of industry can finally be brought to completion in a plan. . . . Once the first step has been taken, which we seem about to take, that road will begin to suggest itself as the way to a civilized industry. . . . We shall all of us be made unhappy in one way or another, for the things we love, as well as things that are only privileges, will have...
East 67th Street was roped off and two maroon Rolls-Royces were drawn up on the sidewalk in front of the Vanderbilt house so that Mrs. Whitney, Countess Széchényi and their brigadier brother might step quickly into them. On Fifth Avenue, curious crowds watched these and 14 other limousines sweep royally downtown. Three vans bore away the flowers, some of which earned Florists Wadley & Smythe $5,000. At South Ferry on the Battery the funeral procession rolled aboard two chartered ferryboats, to bear Mrs. Vanderbilt in her bronze casket across the same body of water...
...13th day the animal was able to crawl a little on its mat. "Its right front leg has limbered up," reported Dr. Cornish. "If we succeed in restoring the dog completely to life and consciousness," he said, "our next step will be experiments to save the lives of human beings...
...World War . . . has shown that armaments are an incentive, one of the main causes of war. . . . No reason for war remains except sudden profits for the 50 men who run the munitions racket. . . . The first real step . . . is the destruction of the world-wide munitions racket. It will cost millions of dollars. It will save millions of lives...
...services of Young & Rubicam for a fee of $10,000. Several months ago TVA started to find customers for the power it generates at Muscle Shoals. Later it formed Electric Home & Farm Authority to finance instalment sales of electric apparatus to valley dwellers. An advertising campaign was the next step...