Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world and over the enemy country." Said Taft: "If the Russians realize that that power cannot be challenged and can do real damage to their own nation with the atomic bomb and otherwise, their purpose of military aggression may well wither and peaceful relations in Europe may grow again...
...gentlemen, California was "a large country of the West Indies," a toothache could be cured by "laxatives of manna and cassia dissolved in asses' milk," and tobacco could dry up the brain to "a little black lump." Later, as knowledge grew and changed, the Encyclopaedia Britannica had to grow and change with...
...real significance of 1950's industrial record was that it provided the best measure of the economy's strength to perform the job of arming the U.S. and much of the free world. At year's end the question was not only, "How did the boom grow so big in 1950?" It was also, "How big must the economy grow in 1951 to carry its vast new burden...
...ability to grow and expand along with a constantly growing nation was the real measure of its strength. If it grows in 1951 only as fast as in 1950, the gross national product will reach an estimated $310 billion. By stepping up the work week from 41 to 48 hours, the nation could get a windfall of 1,000,000 more workers, thus produce more goods than in 1950. If the production target was set high enough, American productive genius would do the rest. A summation of that genius had been well stated a quarter-century ago by a rising...
Indomitable Spirit. The strength of the nation lay in the fact that the U.S. economy, which had tripled in size since it was formally pronounced "mature" by New Deal hare-braintrusters in 1936, was still capable of gigantic growth. No one thought that it could grow big enough-or fast enough-in the next few years to pour out civilian goods at 1950's rate and also rearm the nation. But most economists and businessmen knew that, barring the sudden arrival of all-out war, it could grow fast enough to keep the standard of living close...