Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Similar warnings came to the Combined Food Board (the U.S., Britain and Canada), which was more concerned with dividing up the existing supply than prodding production. When the demands grew more insistent, President Truman made an occasional conservation appeal to the people. But it was not until Feb. i that the Government got down to brass tacks. On that date, Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson strode into a Cabinet meeting with the information that there would not be enough U.S. wheat to meet U.S. commitments, no matter how much the U.S. farmer produced...
...unprecedented boom grew beanstalk-fast from a 3,022-ft.-deep borehole in a cornfield near the dusty little village of Odendaalsrus, southwest of Johannesburg on the Free State's sandy veld. A Canadian engineer, G. W. Hicks, employed by Diamond Tycoon Sir Ernest Oppenheimer's Western Holdings and Blinkpoort companies, brought up the diamond-drilled ore core. It assayed 62.6 oz. of gold to the ton-33 times as rich as the phenomenally prosperous Blyvooruitzicht mine, 120 times better than Canada's best...
Joseph C. Grew '02, former ambassador to Japan, was given the only honorary degree three years ago, but the University loosened up the following year with eight awards, and last year borrowed Admiral Ernest King and correspondent Leland Stowe from the national view to head a list of 12 honarary guests on the Commencement platform...
...budget was the pending $3,750,000,000 U.S. loan. Without that, warned Dalton, Britain would have to cut imports sharply, revamp all figures, tighten trade controls. But the "if" grew less "iffy"; the bill for the loan was sent to the U.S. Senate floor last week with a 14-to-5 vote of approval by the Banking & Currency Committee...
...Wallflower. Arthur Murray's success grew out of his extreme shyness. As a boy on Manhattan's lower East Side he couldn't work up enough courage to dance with girls. On the theory he has held ever since, that personal popularity parallels dancing ability, he grimly learned to dance, soon won a settlement house "flatfoot waltz" contest. From that he went on to be a dance instructor for Vernon and Irene Castle, among others. When he was making $100 a week, he quit to study business administration at Georgia Tech. Said he: "I didn...