Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Putney School grew, Director Hinton kept the pioneer spirit fiercely alive. Her blue-jeaned charges learned their math and history in the mornings; in the afternoons they learned how to ski, tend cows, or run a blacksmith's shop. There were no rigid schedules of weekly exams, no report cards-not even football teams. After hours, students were urged to strike out on their own projects, e.g., sonnet-writing, musical composition, working with wrought iron. Nor were the sexes kept apart. Said one recent alumnus: "There is no 'problem.' After you've worked all afternoon around...
...lockers of the chemists. Now they could predict how a substance would react even when they had no sample of it. They could handle with new assurance the complex organic molecules, whose atoms are arranged like submicroscopic lace in chains, rings and branches. Out of the new techniques grew enormous industries -drugs, plastics and synthetic fibers...
...them into production. On the financial side he believed that investors were more interested in growth industries and capital gains than a quick cash return; instead of paying dividends, his company would plow back its earnings into new projects that would pay off investors in capital gains as they grew. Both ideas have been so successful that Nation al Research has blossomed from a $50,000 investment into a $4,500,000 research company, with 150 patent applications and profitable tie-in agreements with seven big companies using its discoveries. Last week National Research helped to launch two more...
Morse's first big financial success was frozen orange juice, which he discovered how to make with his high-vacuum process. He helped set up what is now the Minute Maid Corp. in 1945, and after some early marketing troubles, started the frozen-orange-juice boom. Minute Maid grew into the No. 1. U.S. frozen-orange-juice company, with 30% of the market and 1953 sales of $36.4 million. Morse sold National Research's interest in Minute Maid, but he still retains a royalty agreement that will eventually net National Research more than...
...that they, had taken the right babies home to rear. Then, reluctantly, they agreed to switch. Swiss Housewife Madeleine Joye's predicament was even worse. She had no cause to suspect that one of the twins she bore on July 4, 1941 was not her son. True, Philippe grew up skinny and Paul plump: they were "as different as a cock from a rabbit." When the boys were six, Mrs. Joye met little Ernstli, a frail youngster who looked so much like Philippe that she began to wonder. She questioned Ernstli's mother, learned that he had been...