Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Analyzing the U.S. census, he discovered an odd discrepancy in the population of native whites: between 1900 and 1910, the group which was aged 10 to 14 in 1900 somehow grew instead of shrinking. When deaths and emigrations were totaled and deducted, the group mysteriously gained 170,000 in population. Other studies showed that every year some 20,000 Negroes unaccountably disappeared from the census statistics. The obvious explanation: the Negroes had become native "whites...
Krauts & Cokes. Although Americans had made a better impression on Austrians than on any other people in Europe, the Gemütlichkeit was riddled by flashes of bitterness. Usually broadminded, the Viennese grew jealous, called girls who fraternized with the chocolate-bearing G.I.s "chocoladies." The sprinkling (5%) of combat veterans among U.S. troops called the Austrians just plain Krauts, only softer...
...second Mitsui enterprise was a pawnshop. Later, a money-changing office grew into the great banking system which financed and controlled the Mitsui merchandising, manufacturing and shipping empire. In 1937 the private wealth of the eleven Mitsui family heads was estimated at 1,635,000,000 yen ($450 million...
...like a melicotton [peach]." But old Farmer Brocke insisted that the new Queen was actually the daughter of Old Nick, as was proved by the fact that she had a mole shaped like a strawberry on her white neck, and sometimes touched it with her left hand-on which grew a rudimentary sixth finger. Farmer Brocke believed that King Henry had married a witch, and one rainy day he grumbled to Mistress Higons: "It is 'long of the King that this weather is so troublous and unstable, and I wene that we shall never have better weather whiles...
...became president of the infant Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Under his astute guidance, it grew into a prodigious union with 350,000 members, the source of Sidney Hillman's power. "Enemy of the Working Class." He became the model of a labor statesman in a capitalist world. He rejected Marxism, accepting instead the theory that the best way to improve labor's lot is to improve management. With funds of the A.C.W. he pulled many a manufacturer out of bankruptcy. He helped them increase the efficiency of their business. He established industry-wide insurance programs...