Word: grower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fast Grower. Plywood, for example, is the fastest-growing building material in the U.S. Because of the demand from contractors and do-it-yourself buffs who are nailing up 4.8 billion sq. ft. of plywood a year, plywood sales have increased 20% faster than even those of the booming aluminum industry in the past 15 years. Manufacturers have also pioneered a host of new products, from low-priced particle board, made of chips and shavings, to weatherproof, plastic-coated plywood and porcelain-faced colored panels (choice of nine) for bathrooms or exterior remodeling. The biggest push for wood products...
...Darkest Cloud." First up to speak was Attorney General James Plemon Coleman Jr., the massive (6 ft. 2 in., 235 Ibs.) son of a Choctaw County cotton grower. "We will keep the schoolhouses open and we will keep the races separate and we will not keep the state in an uproar," he said...
...George moved up to the State Court of Appeals, then to the Georgia Supreme Court as an associate justice. He resigned in 1922, and went back to Vienna to handle the estate of his late father-in-law, hard-bitten old Joseph Heard, a cotton grower, undertaker, warehouseman, building contractor and mule trader, whose bouncing, irrepressible daughter Lucy had become George's wife in 1903. One lazy summer afternoon George was fishing on the Flint River near Vienna when he got word of the death of rabble-rousing Senator Tom Watson, bitter isolationist and onetime Populist Party candidate...
...domestic overabundance in a world of shortages presents us with a serious economic and political question-what to do with our surpluses. Most suggested solutions to this home-grown problem have the tendency to affect a dairy farmer in France as well as his counterpart in Wisconsin, a wheat-grower in Montana as well as a sheep rancher in Australia...
...Yugoslavs, Americans, Britons and some Italian observers) promptly suggested that the line be bent to put the entire Eller farm in Yugoslavia. While a large crowd of kibitzing Italian and Yugoslav peasants looked on, the line-drawers argued it out. The U.S. senior officer present, Major William Grower, disagreed with the Yugoslavs. He suggested that since the Ellers were Italians the line should be bent to put the farm entirely in Italy. The Yugoslavs refused. After two frustrating hours, Grower ordered a stake driven near the wall of Eller's house that put the old farmer's kitchen...