Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keys to Windward Passage. The Caribbean hook consists of three areas which grow progressively more vulnerable from north to south. Northernmost and strongest is the stretch from the Strait of Florida to the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti. Florida's Strait is full of shoals, has well-defined channels, is well within the range of aircraft operating from Tampa, Jacksonville, Miami, Pensacola and dozens of inland fields. To the east the 706 islands of the Bahamas protect it, forming a tactical screen, an ideal area for submarines, destroyers, advanced aircraft bases. Except for attack by an overwhelming naval...
...could they be expected to expand production for Defense, they asked, if the "damn-japs" were to be allowed to diddle the scrap price, perhaps clean out the country's junk yards in the process? They pointed out that the West Coast, where scrap consumption is certain to grow with expansion for Defense, has encountered scrap shortages in previous production peaks. They cited a recent statement of the Institute of Scrap Iron and Steel (which is all for free trade in scrap) to show steel's increased dependence on scrap: from 1920 to 1938 U. S. steelmaking capacity...
...Oilman Shea knew he was moving into a trouble spot. Firecrackers had exploded under North American for nearly two years, and one of the new man's presumptive duties was to stop the noise. But the explosions did not even taper off. Last week they threatened to grow louder...
...Then the food began to grow scanty and toward the end we were reduced to a piece of bully beef and four biscuits for our midday and evening meals. . . . When we had gone out about three days submarines were sighted and depth charges were dropped. The escorting destroyers circled about for an hour, but there was no further sign of the submarine...
...long war between U. S. business and the New Deal, one of the wordiest sectors has been in the neighborhood of SEC. Last month, in the truceful atmosphere engendered by Rearmament, this sector began to grow quiet. Last week, on one of Wall Street's sorest salients, there was Peace...