Word: develop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tread rubber is identical in both countries, being the best that U.S.A. technicians have yet been able to develop...
Died. George Edgar Merrick, 55, land-boom multimillionaire, founder and developer of Florida's Coral Gables; of heart disease; in Miami. He had been planning to develop modest land holdings into a Utopia for the aged when the boom started; within ten years he and his associates created a city of some 3,000 houses, sold an estimated $150,000,000 worth of land. In 1926 Merrick founded the University of Miami with a gift of $5,000,000 and land. When the boom collapsed, he lost his fortune, retired to a Florida key to run a small fishing...
...third of U.S. requirements might be satisfied-in time-if the remaining 500,000 odd suitable acres were successfully planted. This year's crush will produce some 8,000,000 lb., about 5% of what the U.S. needs. For the long pull the Department of Agriculture hopes to develop hardier tung trees (to widen the potential U.S. area for tung plantations) and trees that yield more oil per unit...
When the Crimson Network joins the frequency modulation system of the Yankee Network this evening between 8:15 and 10:00 o'clock, to make a broadcast of the joint Harvard and Radcliffe Glee Club concert, it will take the first step in what may develop into a new policy of closer relations between the college radio stations and FM networks...
...politically, economically, and psychologically, because basically we think of ourselves as representatives of the status quo, attempting to preserve it against a powerful new order. We are attempting to resist the principle of change, and we are beginning to see the hopelessness of that task. Upon our ability to develop plans for our own new order, and to fight the war with these plans in view, depends victory or defeat...