Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deal that tells us that America has lost its capacity to grow. We shall never build a better world by listening to those counsels of defeat. Is America old and wornout, as the New Dealers tell us? Look to the beaches of Normandy for the answer. Look to the reaches of the wide Pacific. ... I say to you: our country is just fighting its way through to new horizons. The future of America has no limit...
...Allies had the answer to that: more and better troops, better material, plenty of supplies, complete superiority in every phase of war. Germany would fight on, desperately and skillfully. Allied casualty lists would grow. But at last, whether it was months or weeks away, the end seemed in sight...
Despite the cloud of censorship, the reassurances of British officialdom, the casual gibes of high hearted correspondents and the absurdity of German propaganda claims, the robot bomb attack on southern England showed plain signs that it might grow from a major nuisance into a minor menace...
...year-old Brigadier General Louis Woods, who bosses the Corps's air arm, smoked his usual 14 cigars a day last week and worked diligently at his desk in a corner of the Navy Building. He had seen Cunningham's division of five officers and 30 men grow into an organization which embraces almost one-fourth of the Corps's entire personnel. Over its size and its quality Marines pop their buttons with pride...
They only grow indignant when they recall how they are used. The Corps will never be satisfied until its air arm gets assigned to carriers, from which it can support its own foot soldiers. Its flyers are browned off on defensive and strategic operations, based on hot atolls. Says General Woods firmly: "The Marine aviator and the Marine foot soldier must be a team." The welcome scuttlebutt this week: the Navy was about ready for some all-Marine carriers, was going to give its amphibious outfit what it wanted...