Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Romney March, Corriedale, Polwarth, Southdowns, Ryelands are not the names of Pullman cars. They are the names of Australian sheep which grow one-fourth of the world's wool, about 900,000,000 lbs. The U. S., Britain, France, Belgium, Japan, Germany are ordinarily big buyers...
PUBLICATIONS-four books (When You Grow Up to Vote, It's Up to the Women, A Trip to Washington with Bobby and Betty, This Is My Story), a daily newspaper column, magazine articles...
...plywood technology did not get under way in the U. S. until 1930 and is just now beginning to grow rapidly. Figures for 1937 (latest available) put total U. S. plywood production at $45,500,000. The figure for 1939 will probably be around $80,000,000. The stuff is being used for luggage, piano cases, radio cabinets, speedboats, concrete forms, truck bodies, prefabricated houses, cinema studio sets, boxcars, beer barrels, showcases, jigsaw puzzles, Ping-pong tables. Eugene Vidal, onetime head of the U. S. Bureau of Air Commerce, is now president of a small company which has developed...