Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...banks of the Ohio River were certain it would be a seat of great farms, a port for the burgeoning West, and a center of riches and influence. They gave its streets such proud names as Washington and Maryland and they called the village America. In the 1820s it grew fast. Then shifting sands moved the river channel and its commerce away, and a terrible epidemic swept the town. By 1835 its brave dream was dying; in the century after that, America, Ill. almost vanished...
...When he grew more wheat or collected more eggs than the public would buy at his price, the Government's Commodity Credit Corp. bailed him out. That was all right during the war, when CCC, with $4,750,000,000 to draw on, could sell whatever it bought. Even as late as June 1948, CCC had laid out a mere $294 million. But in the 16 months since, CCC purchases-to keep the farmer's income up-had increased fantastically. Last week CCC President Ralph S. Trigg announced that CCC had tied up more than $3 billion...
Boss of the new organization is plump, pink-cheeked General Secretary Jacobus Hendrik Oldenbroek, 52. Born in Amsterdam, he grew up in London and Hamburg, where his father, a cigarmaker, had set up shop. Beginning work at 14, as a clerk, he moved on to trade-union journalism, eventually headed the powerful International Transport Workers' Federation. A good-natured, soft-spoken labor diplomat as well as a staunch anti-Communist and a crack administrator, Oldenbroek seemed to many outsiders to be the ideal man for the job. "We are going to be efficient, in the American sense," he said...
...embraced Christianity. According to his lights, he had sought to guide his nation into the mainstream of modern civilization. He had broken the warlords, checked an early international Communist conspiracy, survived Japanese aggression-only to go down before a later, greater Communist conspiracy and the corruption which grew up in his own war-torn regime. No national leader had fought armed Communism longer or more tenaciously...
...mail-order business grew so fast that within a few months he had filled his basement with books to be mailed. When his wife protested that she hadn't enough room to do the washing, he moved his Webster Publishing Co. (named after Noah and Daniel) to two rat-infested rooms on the riverfront. Within three years, Webster's sales amounted to $102,000. By 1928, they had doubled. By 1931, W.P. had another idea...