Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Corn for Dixie. Man is master not only of the soil, but of the plants that grow in it, molding them plastically to suit human purposes. Until recently, the U.S. Southeast had never been good corn country. A few years ago the U.S. Department of Agriculture began breeding special hybrid corns to suit Southern conditions. In North Carolina, whose corn yields ran around 22 bushels an acre, the new "Dixie" hybrids, lavishly fertilized and planted thicker than ordinary corn, made 125 bushels...
...Hillsides. Even the Chinese, who are among the best farmers in the world, do not use their land to full advantage. Chinese farmers make the most of the plains and valley bottoms, but only in a few parts of the country do they farm the hillsides. These grow grass and brush, which are desperately needed for fuel. If the Chinese could mine and distribute their coal, they could turn the hillsides into productive pastures and orchards. This single item, according to one estimate, would add 10% to China's food supply...
...Malthusians are not the only ones who have been wildly wrong about population growth. Abraham Lincoln, assuming that U.S. population would continue to grow as fast as it did in his day, predicted that the U.S. would have 250 million people by 1930. According to his forecasts, the 1948 population would be 430 million instead of 140 million...
...highly esteemed civilization . . . destroys the very qualities which have produced it: initiative, independence, intellectual resourcefulness. A generation . . . born in confusion, suckled in tumult, reared with cars, radios, movies, comics and picture magazines, can hardly [grow up into] reflective, sober, well-rounded young people...
...fife and tuba that is "Wintergreen," look for a moment at the man with the Dewey button and the tear in his eye and the man with the Truman button and the tear in his eye. These men understand. They know whose absence it is that makes the heart grow heavier this autumn. And not all the brass in Bubduk can blow loud enough to make up the loss of John P. Wintergreen...