Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fomento. At that point Puerto Rico, its hungry people jamming an eroded land without oil, coal or iron, looked hopeless. Undeterred. Muñoz counted the island's assets: plentiful labor, an open door through U.S. tariff walls for anything the island could grow or make, a ready-to-hand brain trust of half a dozen bright young U.S.-educated economists, professors and businessmen. Among them: Rafael Pico, now president of the government's bank, and Roberto Sánchez Vilella, now Secretary of State (Vice-Governor). Rex Tugwell. named Governor, implanted an efficient civil service...
Guaranty Trusty. In Columbus, Ohio, when an elementary school teacher told her class to write themes on what they would like to be when they grow up, Darrell Miller, 9, said that he was interested in banking, added: "To be a president of a bank you have to have a good record and no time...
...ridiculous private school system now existing as laws in Georgia and Virginia. There is a deep desire for improvement in the South, though the rate of progress must seem unbelievably slow and very characteristically Southern to outsiders. But the roots are there; they merely have to grow. The South will not remain in a state of suspended stagnation, but must eventually rise to better standards of education. The wheels have already begun to turn; they only need more acceleration...
...only did General Foods grow big, but it became one of the nation's best-managed companies under two chief executives as famed for their public service as for their business savvy. Clarence Francis, president and later chairman between 1934 and 1954, has been a top food and foreign-trade adviser to Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower. His successor, Mortimer, was chairman of the star-studded Advertising Council from 1947 to 1950, headed the United Community Campaign fund last year. Under him, each General Foods' sales dollar has brought a pretax profit...
Harvard's Baccalaureate services, Pusey asserted, have always had a strongly religious emphasis. He noted that it has become increasingly difficult to find something to say, partly because of the disparity of faiths and backgrounds, which "promises to grow worse." But he mainly stressed the increase of secularism in the western world...