Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recession is taking on the "saucer" shape of 1953-54. The signs grow that we are on the bottom of the saucer, but it may take some time to cross the flat part of the bottom...
...stretch of choice land. In the Los Angeles suburb of Westchester, Aircraft Mechanic Roger Ransom will probably lose the back tenth of his lot to the San Diego Freeway. He has been offered $900, considers that hardly adequate for the spot where his orchard was going to grow. Some 15 miles west of Santa Rosa, N.Mex., on widening Highway 66, Moises Lucero lost the bar, gas station and dance-hall which he bought seven years ago with his life savings as a ranch hand. Small Businessman Lucero demanded $60,000, got $40,000, laments: "Where can I buy another home...
...first, or do the kids demand it because they find it in the Top 40? If the Top 40 is an election, will somebody please blow the whistle for the Honest Ballot Association?" Miller's prescription for foresighted station owners: "Guide sub-teen tastes so that youngsters will grow up with a station as its "permanent audience,' instead of outgrowing it altogether. As Miller finished his harangue the disk jockeys bounced up to give him the convention's only standing ovation
...make noises like a talking dog. a bugle, a violin, flute, bassoon or harpsichord. He is halfway through the script of a novel. And he has been doing this sort of thing for half of his life. Says Ustinov: "This talk of Wunderkind gets more intense as I grow older and the white hairs crop out in my beard...
...American Farm Bureau Federation, influential voice in the shaping of New Deal farm policies, key figure (with Henry A. Wallace) in the passage of the first Agriculture Adjustment Act and the subsequent Soil Conservation Act; in Florence, Ala. O'Neal watched with satisfaction his federation's membership grow from 276,000 to 1,275,000 during his tenure as president, once said of farm production: "We should figure out our future on the basis of human needs-of goods and service-and not on the basis of money...