Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after college as a research man for the Wisconsin Telephone Co., then "quit in disgust" and went to work for the Wisconsin Public Service Commission. Soon he was borrowed by the Federal Communications Commission to help investigate the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. His reputation as a utilities expert grew. At 30, as the Tennessee Valley Authority's manager of power operations, he negotiated the famed Commonwealth & Southern purchases with Wendell Willkie...
When milkwagon drivers refused to cross their fellow workers' picket line at a Detroit dairy, one sorrel horse grew tired of waiting and set off alone...
...intelligence the trumpeters were fair, but at reproduction they were sluggish. They grew scarcer & scarcer until, in 1935, there were only 73. They no longer wintered in southern feeding grounds, but huddled, half-starving, on spring-warmed patches of open water in Rocky Mountain lakes...
Campaign Finals. As time grew short, Perón quickened his already kinetic campaign. He harangued a Buenos Aires mass meeting which turned into a circus because tumultuous rain had shorted loudspeakers, evinced fear for his life ("any move against my person will bring civil war in 48 hours"), barnstormed up & down potent Buenos Aires province...
...also looks miraculously fetching in the blue serge suit and black cotton stockings of "a Wren. Versatile Cinemactor Donat (The 39 Steps, Goodbye, Mr. Chips) seems happy in what is probably the freest, freshest comedy role he has ever had, and grows young even more gracefully than he grew old in the James Hilton heartwringer...