Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...energetic President Les Faneuf, who started as Bell's special assistant 13 years ago after a rainbow career as everything from commandant of a military academy to political editor of the Buffalo Times, Bell has the kind of imaginative, production-wise executive the company needs in order to grow. But, says Chairman Bell: "No matter where I am, when an airplane flies overhead, I'm going to go outside and look at it. I don't think I'll ever get over that...
...village of Boscotrecase near Naples, people who had been used to the knock of Tax Collector Eugenic Francescone on their doors began about a year ago to grow accustomed to the knock of his son. Young Vittorio begged clothes to distribute among the village poor; he even persuaded the five beggars who had enjoyed Boscotrecase's old-clothes monopoly to give up part of their haul. Rumors spread about the goodness of young Vittorio-that at school he gave away his lunch to poorer boys, that he supported 13 families with his charity. He denied the rumors, but people...
Overall, the hope is to cut the current 14.1 million bale surplus to a manageable 4,000,000 bales by 1959. But few cotton economists are that hopeful or think that any Government program alone can offer a final solution. The real answer is for Old King Cotton to grow up to the new U.S. industrial revolution. With mechanized farming methods, the U.S. currently produces more cotton on 17 million acres than it did on 36 million acres in 1930. Yet efficient growers cannot take advantage of their progress because cotton has been grown under an uneconomically high. Government-supported...
What sort of future do the schools face? "The size of classes will no doubt grow, and many schools will fall back upon double sessions. The standards of certification may be undermined, and the quality of instruction will decline. Already, 100,000 'emergency' teachers are in service, and almost half the elementary schoolchildren receive instruction from unsupervised green hands. Less than 70% of elementary schoolteachers are college graduates, and only 60% of the college faculties have earned the Ph.D. . . For some subjects, a total collapse is imminent; 46% of American public high schools offer no foreign language...
...might be expected, some foreigners are utterly bewildered by the informality of U.S. schools, and a few Americans grow restive in the strict foreign classroom. But in general, the exchange teachers make the most of their year...