Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dowling, 41, was a quiet, deadpan reporter whose field was war. He started out playing at it with the toy soldiers collected for him all over the world by his famous parents, Actor-Producer Eddie Dowling and Comedienne Ray Dooley. He grew up to make a career of combat. He was in the front lines at Guadalcanal, covered the Allied campaign in New Guinea, watched the Japanese surrender in Manila Bay as a World War II correspondent for the Chicago Sun. He won the Ernie Pyle award in 1946 for distinguished war reporting. Death nearly touched him more than once...
...voice. Jim's older brother was a perfectly normal, completely masculine boy whom Jim worshiped. When Jim was born, his mother wanted a girl, kept him in dresses and let his hair grow until he was four, later taught him to do girls' household chores. As Jim grew up. he learned to please his mother by playing her game, wore her clothes around the house and put up his blond hair in curlers...
...fortnight later, new symptoms began to show. The patients' dark skins grew darker in patches and rose up in leathery plaques. Sometimes the skin peeled away, leaving white or pink tissue. Deeper burns wept and formed crusts. When burns were on the scalp (70% of all individuals), the hair came out by the handful...
...President J. Peter Grace Jr. (Grace gave up the title to free himself for the diversified operations of the parent company.) Lapham comes by shipping naturally: his grandfather was co-founder of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., his father was onetime president and board chairman. Brooklyn-born, Lewis Lapham grew up in San Francisco, went East to school (Hotchkiss and Yale '31), worked as a ship news reporter for the San Francisco Examiner before he joined the family firm. During World War II, he was executive assistant to the San Francisco Port of Embarkation. Two years ago Grace Line...
World trade grew so rapidly under GATT that the tariff concessions were expanded at a meeting in 1949, and again in 1951. The agreement now covers 58,000 concessions, on everything from locomotives to leather gloves. But GATT delegates, for all their accomplishments, never had a place to hang their hats. They met intermittently, lacked even an adequate secretariat. Earlier this year they decided to set up a permanent secretariat, the Organization for Trade Cooperation, to keep records of rate agreements, provide a forum for participating countries, make arrangements for negotiations, etc. But OTC would conduct no negotiations on tariffs...