Word: develop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disclosing no secret," said he, "in asserting that research is proceeding successfully on airplane engines that develop as much as 8,000 horsepower! Imagine a plane like the B19* equipped with four such engines . . . plus other vital improvements already available and you grasp the emerging revolutionary possibility of ranges circling the entire globe (25,000 miles) with ample margins for tactical operations...
...Mary Jeanne Byrd, representative of the consumers' division of the Office of Price Administration, called upon college women to enroll in consumer courses to develop economical hobbies...
According to the prosecutor's office, she had taken some $100,000 from neighbors and acquaintances by persuading them that she needed temporary loans to develop sure-thing properties, so lush with oil that the fruit on plum trees turned yellow. Among contributors to Mrs. Carr's favorite charity: a beautician, a druggist, a jeweler. She had never filed any income-tax returns, she said, because "I never gave it a thought...
...departments." This is also the solution suggested by the Chicago survey, which thinks the national churches themselves should produce and sponsor network broadcasts that would utilize to the hilt the techniques of such successful programs as Town Meeting of the Air, the Music Appreciation Hour, and Cavalcade of America, develop also some new techniques of their...
Closed-Door Policy. "This country . . . during the 19th Century was able to develop its energies and its riches thanks to the unending stream of men from Europe . . . [but] now has . . . closed its doors in their faces, treating them as tiresome and undesirable beggars...