Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson editorialist would probably reply that he only wants the State to act as policeman, to prevent unscrupulous men from blocking free enterprise. This is, first, unnecessary. Monopolies (and, needless to say, tariffs) do not arise without governmental connivance. No monopoly exists that did not grow with the aid of the State. Secondly, it is impossible. Never has a State been given control over the wealth produced by its citizens without grievously misappropriating...
...perfect wartime crop that produces food, fiber and shot. Compound lard, high explosives, stock feed, clothing, plastics, isinglass for planes and thousands of other products are produced from cotton. Very few articles can be made from soybeans that cannot also be made from cotton seed. We can grow more pounds of cotton seed per acre than we can soybeans, and we can harvest the cotton seed...
...Henry J. Kaiser asked yet another: "If mankind is to build and grow even greater, it must have freedom to employ to the full the creativeness of hand and mind which God has conferred upon...
...Current, the islands are not as hot as might be expected. Mists shroud the tops of the 2,000 volcanic crater cones that splotch the group's 2,800 square miles; on all but the shore the climate is humid. The handful of inhabitants, mostly Ecuadorians and Scandinavians, grow coffee and sugar cane, raise cattle on the craters' slopes. In the '30s, the islands became famed in U.S. Sunday supplements because of a bizarre free-love colony founded by a German dentist, which came to an unhappy end with the violent deaths of four members...
...world, with every tick of the clock, hundreds of people are dying. Everywhere, as we talk, men are maiming, mutilating, burning each other and blasting each other into all eternity. Women are being buried with their babies in their arms under the ruins of their bombed homes. Whole peoples grow sunken-eyed, bare-boned, rickety-easy preys to pestilence, after famine. And with every breath we take in, some starved child breathes out its last...