Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quoted to them (few ever actually got to see it) remembered such phrases as "unfriendly country" and "mobilization to meet an attack." Whereas the country was so ill-prepared for attack, the document continued, the Defense Department was ordered to organize the nation's reserves and report progress within 60 days...
...best qualified to measure Europe's progress toward peace and economic health reported their finding to the U.S. last week in a glow of confidence. One was ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, who was off on another round of talks in Europe, announcing "spectacular" results. Said Hoffman: "The complete recovery of Western Europe can be expected by 1952 even if the Soviet satellites continue to block trade between Eastern and Western Europe." The other report came from General Lucius Clay, home on a 27-hour visit from his headquarters in Germany to make his first direct report to the U.S. people...
...study of mental illness did not make much progress in the 19th Century. Victorian doctors, concentrating on the microscope and on the autopsy table, were determined to find a physical reason for every illness. Fascinated by blood, bone and bowel, they decided that neuroses were caused by upset "nerves" or "brain." The treatment of mental illness lagged-with a few exceptions-until fairly recent times...
Frenchmen's Progress. France had progress to report in motorcar building. Production had already caught up with the prewar levels (in April and June it shot up to 106% of the prewar rate, fell below it in July and August because of workers' vacations). In 1948's first half, the French industry had exported 57% of its total passenger-car production and 14% of all commercial cars, to ring up a whopping $144 million in foreign sales. In September, France's nationalized Renault plant had more U.S. orders (3,200) than it could fill (it shipped...
Yankees' Progress. The newest things in U.S. cars were unveiled this week. Nash had spent about $15 million in development work and retooling for its new "Airflyte" line. The new Nash silhouette is long, wide and low, with a racy air-scoop grille. A single "Uniscope" mounted on the steering column holds the speedometer and other gauges normally on the dashboard. The Nash owner can still sleep in his car, but the new beds can be made up (by lowering the bisected front-seat backrest) into either a single or double bed, without disturbing the rear trunk-compartment...