Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Weather Bureau's radar (which shows rain-filled air) watched lone approaching with measured tread. She had a clear little eye in her center (the signature of a hurricane), and around it were elaborate swirls like a spiral nebula (see cuts'}. But lone lingered; her eye grew dim; her spirals dissolved in a structureless blob of rain...
...early years of aviation, these advantages were important. Long airstrips on land were few. and the unreliability of early engines made seaplanes desirable over oceans. When airstrips grew longer and engines more reliable, seaplanes almost disappeared. To keep their propellers out of the water, their engines had to be mounted on some high, cumbersome structure, and this made them less efficient for most purposes than land-based aircraft...
...parity statistics do not tell the whole story. Looking at the overall picture last week, the Federal Reserve Board concluded that "the general financial position of farmers remains relatively strong." The reason is that while farmers started out with lower cash incomes than most of the U.S. (but grew much of their own food), their incomes shot up faster than anyone else during World War II and in the postwar boom. From 1939 through 1951, per capita farm incomes zoomed from $244 to $970, a gain of almost 300%; at the same time, non-farm incomes climbed only...
Grover placed second in Rhode Island's Matanuck Beach-Block Island race in 1950 and fifth in a 1954 endurance swim at Atlantic City, N.J., in 1954. His interest in long distance swimming grew almost maniacal, so much so that it developed into an obsession which dominated his thinking and became almost a release from worldly problems...
Born the son of a Portuguese carpenter and a Negro slave, António Francisco grew up in the 18th century gold-rush town of Ouro Preto. There, under the harsh rule of whiplashing, saber-swinging Portuguese dragoons, both blacks and whites labored to sluice and pan over $8,000,000 in gold and diamonds from the fabulous mines of Minas Gerais. Most of the gold went to the Portuguese Crown, but the little that the miners gleaned for themselves made them rich. To prove their piety, the miners embarked on a church-building spree that created some...