Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When men grow "corporations" and women develop "middle-age spread," the spine simply is becoming tired of "supporting in an erect position the body that was intended to go on all fours," writes Marion Dixon...
...less pressing problem is the local unemployment situation in New York City, caused by declining civilian-goods industries, by the great number of small plants (average 19 workers per shop) and by lack of substitute war industries. There are currently 400,000 jobless, and the number promises to grow larger. McNutt is pessimistic about the chances of doing anything much about the New York situation, because the Army is reluctant to place important war contracts in an area so vulnerable. A peculiar feature of the situation is that serious labor shortages exist in Connecticut, Long Island, and New Jersey...
...Gordon believes that the organized parents and educators of the U.S. can make children's radio grow up and quit playing cops & robbers. The time is at hand, she says, for a few pleasant changes. She suggests : >- More time for children's programs. (Totalitarian countries, according to her figures, devote 75% of all radio time to children; the U.S., between...
WASHINGTON--With the flat statement that the national welfare must come first, President Roosevelt said today he may have to requisition every automobile tire in the United States if world conditions grow worse...
...meant to stick to it for more than a year or two, "only until he found something else." But when he was put on permanent tenure after three years with a slight increase in his slight pay, the dreams of better jobs and bossy executive positions began to grow increasingly vague. Especially since there was now a mediocre wife and two mediocre kids. But it must be tough, Vag felt, to have no one to take it out on but a bunch of dumb pupils who didn't appreciate how great he really could have been if he had only...