Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least got fed. Money or influence might buy a man special privileges, but there was no honest way to earn them. One of the most ironically successful prisoners in the colony was a onetime mutinous soldier who managed to buy himself the job of prison executioner, only to grow absentminded, kill another convict in a tiff and end up on his own guillotine -after being good enough to set the blade himself...
Even on the scarred grey face of the Mexican countryside, tilled for more than a thousand years by pointed sticks, changes are visible. South of the Rio Grande near Matamoros grow great fields of cotton, where only mesquite flourished 15 years ago. In booming Lower California, Mexico's newest state, ranchers have sown the republic's biggest wheat fields in reclaimed desert land, and set out hundreds of thousands of fruit and nut trees beside newly driven artesian wells. Among the volcano-ringed Puebla valleys, water led 7 miles through new mountain tunnels has brought record crops...
...collective equality looks to them more & more oldfashioned. The slogans have disappeared; their leaders have become government bureaucrats with American cars at their disposal; mailmen and railway clerks seem to be just as valuable to the state as "pioneers" who are willing to swelter in the Negev desert to grow tomatoes which could be more cheaply produced in Galilee. Said one young Israeli: "It seems as if Zionism was a sort of Benzedrine which isn't working any more. And we don't know what to take in its place. But we do feel that the state...
...advice could easily lose their shirts. He has only scorn for those who advise buying "safe, sound," dividend-paying blue chips, urges them instead to hunt for the overlooked, undervalued long shot. "Every investment," he sums up, "should be made for the primary purpose of causing capital to grow." Those who measure value by dividends he likens to a man who believed "that a dog could be judged by the size of its tail . . . Many of the mutts which he bought, without looking at anything but their attractive tails, were on their last legs. The first rule of investment should...
...from his main objective: running his company to keep prices low. With his new resin, developed by the same Dr. Hoenel who perfected his original resin, he expects to help automakers trim $5 from the cost of painting an average car (now about $15 to $20). If his sales grow as fast as he thinks they will, Reichhold plans to cut his profits to 1%. Says he: "We want to be the A & P of the chemical industry...