Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those of the surrounding countryside without light in their homes or power in their factories. This made even Governor Frank Murphy speak to the strikers severely, and the union negotiating committee hurrying back from Washington by plane told the workers to come to their senses before the whole public grew angry at them. After a powerless day service was finally restored...
...locked assembly room grew heavy from debate. Beards grew with the hours of the night. Sam Kopetzky & friends explained, reasoned, argued that: Doctors would get all their bills paid promptly. Family and clinic doctors would get certain, established fees. Specialists approved by medical societies would get higher fees. The Federal stipend would be the equivalent of a rebate on the taxes which they now pay the Government, and they would not be required to do any work for charity...
When Carver got to Tuskegee he had to poke around in scrap heaps for spare parts with which to build apparatus. With his junkpile equipment he experimented with peanuts, and as the list of surprising products he extracted from them grew longer, his fame traveled farther. Thomas Alva Edison offered him a job, but Carver stayed at Tuskegee. From peanuts he made nearly 300 substances; from sweet potatoes 118, including starch, vinegar, shoe-blacking, library paste, candy. He showed proficiency in cooking and artistic needlework. He made dyes from clay, dandelions, onions, beans, tomato vines, trees. One of his dyes...
...heat. Oddly, the successful steam idea was ridiculed even more than the coal dream, which came to naught. Mr. Andrews burned to death in a fire that leveled his Fifth Avenue mansion in 1899, but the little steam company whose gross revenues the first year were some $200,000 grew into New York Steam Corp., world's biggest central heating concern with assets of $61,000,000 and annual revenues of more than...
...joined the oil rush to Texas after the discovery of the famed Spindletop field at the Century's turn. Working as a roustabout, he saved his pennies, kept an eye peeled for big money. He went into partnership with Robert Lee Blaffer and out of their small beginnings grew Humble Oil Co., the mighty company which Standard now controls. Mr. Parish's official residence is still Houston, though he lives most of the time on Park Avenue, Manhattan. He likes to shoot quail in Thomasville, Ga., where he owns a big preserve jointly with Mr. Teagle...