Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When war clouds rolled up in 1939, Douglas was a middling-sized company with plants at Santa Monica and El Segundo. But he had a big-company backlog of $69,000,000. Cautious Donald Douglas did not want to grow any bigger and did not intend to. All this planemaking interfered with his engineer's urge to design planes. But the Army changed his mind...
...average American Revolutionary was an ignorant shopkeeper-turned-farmer who went broke in England, emigrated to a promised land where the best he could do was to farm enough to keep his growing family alive. He planted a herring with his crops because the Indians did-and it seemed to help them grow. But it never occurred to him that his oxen's manure would make better fertilizer. He refused to use a metal plow because he thought iron poisoned the soil...
...Dewey, victim of some of the most thorough journalistic hatchet jobs of the century, laughed off the stage in a premature Presidential try in 1940, has shown his ability to grow and thus to come back. He is compiling an unassailable record as Governor of the nation's No. 1 political state. In Gallup polls-despite Wendell Willkie's recent spurt (see p. 14)-he leads all other Republicans as he has for many months...
...that the aircraft carrier has replaced the battlewagon as the Navy's capital ship, the carrier is beginning to grow. The Navy announced that somewhere between the drafting tables and the shipways are three new carriers which will be the biggest in naval history. Some time before year's end, the keels of two will go down; construction of the third will start early...
...brightest liberal ornaments of the South, the first U.S. state university to open its doors, last week celebrated its 150th anniversary. At Chapel Hill the Tarheels of the University of North Carolina had every reason to congratulate themselves on their sesquicentennial. North Carolina had had to grow in a climate which had often been desolating to the liberal spirit. But the University had grown lustily and had substantially changed the very air in which it breathed...