Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy and the Merchant Marine must have rope made out of manila hemp; no other kind withstands salt and fresh water so hardily. Manila hemp comes from abaca, a plant much like the one bananas grow on. The U.S. got 98% of its pre-Pearl Harbor hemp from the Philippines. After Pearl Harbor, the U.S. grew enough hemp seed to enable it to plant 300-350,000 acres of ordinary hemp in 1943. These crops will satisfy all but marine hemp needs...
Somewhere in North Africa, tough, profane Lieut. General George S. ("Old Blood and Guts") Patton Jr. found time to answer a fan letter from ready-to-fight Bill (no kin) Patton, 10, of El Paso, Tex. Wrote the General: "Dear Bill ... I certainly hope that by the time you grow up we will be in a period of peace time, but you can be sure that during your lifetime there will be more wars...
BILL SMALE and ROGER SHERMAN are splitting hairs over almost nothing these days in their race to grow a moustache by the night of the REGIMENTAL BALL, while MRS. GEORGE KALIONZES blew into town and made GEORGE shave his off. . . . Well, I guess us fellers can't tickle all the gals . . . all the time...
...three months crews of ten Fortresses (100 men) wore the armor, plus regulation steel helmets, on regular missions over Europe. Grow's figures showed that at least nine owed their lives to it; many more were saved from serious wounds. One man survived a 20-mm. shel' which exploded two feet from his head...
Such results gave bomber crews grounds for hope that body armor might soon be standard. They also made Flight Surgeon Grow an airman's hero. Said he: ". . . If was better to do something about it now instead of reading papers about it to medical societies after...