Word: upward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though not the best argument for personal improvement, it is fairly cogent that in the final accounting the book will read "destroyed while working upward" instead of simply "decayed...
...General upward pressure beneath the price level has finally become evident in all goods. Basic commodities, always leading the parade have not yet taken the second turn which marks the beginning of the endless circle. Now is the time when waiting out the price tail-chasing will mean security later...
...U.S.S.R. art may not be long but it is extra tough. Last week the Soviet creative artist got marching orders from Kultura i Zhizn (Culture and Life), a new fortnightly which Moscow's Department of Agitation and Propaganda has founded to guide him onward & upward...
...start he gave it, Pressed Steel coasted onward & upward through 30 years of prosperity, during which stockholders drew $38 million in dividends. Over the years Pressed Steel grew staid and conservative, floundered badly in the Big Depression, went bankrupt in 1933, barely survived a bitter reorganization battle, still operated at a loss...
...Treasury. To succeed him in the Treasury, the President nominated the man who had twice before come in behind Vinson as he moved upward-Reconversion Boss John Wesley Snyder, a virtual unknown until Harry Truman moved to the White House. John Snyder and Harry Truman were buddies in World War I. They are the closest of cronies now. Perhaps that fact alone was enough for the President to pick him for the second "highest Cabinet post (and second in succession to the presidency...