Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come from poor peasants or urban families. Military service (as in Asiatic armies) often betters their living standards. The Spanish army gives its soldiers comforts unavailable to many civilians: three solid meals a day, warm clothing, good leather boots, free medical care, even legal aid. Camps and barracks may grow their own vegetables. One motorized artillery regiment just outside Madrid has 400 pigs. Its commander boasts: "Cerdo [pork] is one of the secrets of the fine fighting spirit of my men. Give them cerdo twice a day and a gun, and nobody can stop them...
...thing the camps can't grow is equipment. Armament is the Spanish army's most pressing weakness. Though national arsenals produce plenty of machine guns, Mauser rifles and revolvers, they are tooled to turn out only about a dozen 60-mm. and 105-mm. guns a month. For heavy artillery, the army relies on a jumble of obsolete German, French and Italian guns; finding shells to fit the odd-sized barrels is a head-splitting problem...
...Anything making animals grow faster is almost certain to reduce their price." With this consumer-conscious observation, President Dwight Joyce of Cleveland's Glidden Co. last week began promoting a new product to make animals grow faster-and, possibly, to reduce the price of food. The product: "ABC and X" animal feed, which contains waste fish products and secret antibiotic drugs that help animals to get more nourishment from their food. The new feed, said Joyce, will make turkeys grow bigger, speed up the growth of chickens 5% to 20%, pigs 20% (until they reach...
Glidden is not primarily in the feed business; it is one of the biggest U.S. paint companies. But last week President Joyce planned to be in the feed business in a big way, helped by a nationwide ad campaign plugging his new feed with the slogan: "Grow faster with Glidden...
Soybeans & Sex. It was just such enthusiasm to launch non-paint products that had made Glidden grow as fast as an ABC-and-X-fed shoat. In 33 years, Glidden has expanded from a $2,500,000-a-year paint company into a $200 million-a-year concern with 37 plants in the U.S. and Canada. It turns out hundreds of products, ranging from bug poison to salad dressing, from lacquer to sex hormones. In the past two years, Glidden's new products have included a quick-drying paint (Spred Satin), sweetened coconut shreds that stay fresh until used...