Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of The Reconstruction of Europe describes how Talleyrand asserted his principles at Vienna, overcoming the intrigues, rivalries, greeds, hates and incurable frivolity of the rescued old regime. He was able to produce a peace which for much of Europe lasted 100 years, so that generations could grow up believing that war was the abnormal, not the normal, state...
...asked its farmers for more cotton and more wheat. Today, Claude Wickard's whole idea is to grow less cotton, less wheat and more food. He wants to make dairy products, poultry and vegetables basic crops, as important in the nation's economy as cotton, wheat, tobacco, corn and rice. He wants an over abundance of them because he is satisfied that the national income will grow up to buy it. He sees a chance to put the U.S. on a proper diet for the first time in all its history. He believes that "food will...
...Moreover, rubber trees take seven years to mature; so output cannot be increased overnight. But there are some idle trees to be tapped in the East Indies now. The big plantation owners, who tap their trees carefully, will probably not increase their production much. But the natives, who grow half the East Indies rubber and whose real capacity is at best a district officer's guess, will tap trees to the point of destroying them, so long as there are plenty of quota coupons to be had. Hence, output will be increased some by the new quota, even...
...occasion was manufactured to give inspiration to national defense workers, comfort to the U.S.'s allies. But the achievement was real. Nine months previously the first shovelful of dirt had been turned on a site where the plant was to grow. Now it stood there complete, more than 34 acres of floor space, crowded with machine tools operated by 6,500 workmen...
...Army and Navy flying services, the Kittihawk is this year's airplane, will do plenty of fighting before the snow flies. From the Curtiss-Wright plant at Buffalo, better than 250 a month are coming off the line, complete to the last machine gun. They start to grow in an older and smaller (827,000 sq. ft.) plant across town at Tonawanda where fuselages are built, engines and armor are installed. At the new airport plant wings and landing gear are added before they are flown away...