Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mild, deaf, ministerial Bill Green travels 20,000 miles a year on them, but he never tires of the cushioned delights of Pullman bedrooms, is never bored by the sight of flying landscapes. To Bill Green, an old and often lonely man, the railroad ticket is a badge of success, a heart-warming reminder that he is in demand as a speaker, has a salary of $20,000 a year (plus expenses) and a place in the ranks of Prominent Citizens...
...report "indicates that the first year has been a decided success," he said, "but it doesn't mean we've achieved any goals." Emphasizing that the program remains in its experimental stage, he disclosed that it will take "at least three years and probably longer" before any final decision is made on the success of the program...
...thinks that in a fundamental way it is the "flexibility" which permits men of every partisan, tie to, cut across dogmatic lines and tackle common problems together. It is the co-operative planning process distinctive to free governments. To public administration expert Gaus the great intangible in United States success rests with "bringing people into practical community problems where they'll forget formal ideologies and get down to some real thinking...
Basing its verdict on a poll of more than three-fourths of the students who took the first G.E. courses last year, the committee in its report asserted that "there can be little doubt as to the general success" of the experiment thus...
...custom, but Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky had never tried it before. Last week, he summoned U.N. newsmen to a press conference at Lake Success. He had discovered the soft underbelly of democratic journalism. He had only to make any charge he wanted, or slander anyone he pleased, and U.S. newspapers would spread his words on Page...