Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first jeep ever to climb those dizzy mountain passes, where the villages perch on pinnacles and figs grow in the high valleys and the king's harem more than pays for itself, by sewing uniforms for the royal army. Harlan B. Clark (born 33 years ago in Brookfield, Ohio) was in the jeep. He and the jeep together meant that no land-not even Yemen (see map) -could henceforth be isolated from...
...warehouses bulged with a carryover of more than 11 million bales of cotton, at the end of July 1945. Despite bad weather and labor shortages, another 9.1 million bales have just been harvested. And, with soaring prices, U.S. planters are now getting ready to grow a whopping 11.6 million-bale crop...
...countries to set prices and production quotas. In this way it hopes that the mountainous world carryover can be absorbed eventually and everybody, including the U.S., be guaranteed a share of the world market. If the international agreement is signed, the South will have to either: 1) mechanize cotton growing so that it can be done much cheaper, or 2) grow much less cotton. The simple way of legislative price fixing seems doomed by postwar cotton economics. As Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson summed up: "If any farmer has the idea that cotton's problems can be solved merely...
Many a freight and charter line hoped to grow into a full-fledged, regularly scheduled feeder line. But to get permission to fly a new route, airlines must prove to the Civil Aeronautics Board that the service is economically necessary, the company financially able to supply it. The process of proving it is long (a year or two) and expensive. Said one pilot: "I figure it will cost...
Natty, popular President Carey Croneis (rhymes with grow nice) hopes to make Beloit "the best small liberal-arts college in the country." Its collegiate good living, as well as its scholastic offerings, are what make Beloit graduates send their children to Beloit as automatically as a Saltonstall goes to Harvard...