Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lack of it." The report commends GE instructors who announce a list of key problems to be thought over before the examination. Although this method would not work in all fields, some courses could make use of it as soon as this June as a first step toward a more constructive system of studying and grading...
With tact, firmness, sympathy and inexhaustible good humor, he had prodded and pushed France's middleway government toward a balanced budget. He was urging more efficient tax collecting, more efficient production techniques. His staff had calculated that a rationalization of methods could increase output by 10% to 15% without longer working hours or new equipment. Impressed, the French government planned to set up a "national center of productivity," to send 1,500 executives, engineers and workers to study methods in the U.S. (the Communists had so far blocked these plans). Ahead lay other plans for reorientation of France...
Secretary of State Dean Acheson conferred on Germany with both France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman and Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Some progress toward agreement was reported, especially in the talks with Schuman, who has consistently taken a more reasonable view than French officials in Germany. The main question under discussion with the French is their insistence on breaking Germany up into small semi-autonomous governmental units...
...Toward Unity. Thus, slowly and painfully, teaching and being taught, ECAmer-icans abroad were helping Europe pull itself together. Much indeed had yet to be done. In the process of recovery and reconstruction with ECAid, the participating nations had talked, more than acted on, unity. But they had taken two notable steps...
Last summer's discovery doesn't clear up the 4,000-year old puzzle, but it has been hailed by one of the country's top corn men as an important step toward its solution...