Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never think of the U.S. as the richest country in the world," said Snyder, "but as the country that has the greatest internal debt." Brazilians had never thought of that. "The U.S.," he continued, "did not grow solely from within-but . . . through the introduction of additional manpower, of additional technical knowledge, and by the addition of foreign capital. . . . Brazil has a great opportunity for future development . . . if it can learn to accept foreign capital as a partner...
...public still thinks of the Bay in terms of the far north where bitter winters grow thick, smooth fur on Arctic foxes, mink, muskrats, fishers and beavers. But furs are not the company's only concern. Actually, the 15,000 trappers from whom, the company buys are a less valuable asset than the far greater number of Canadians to whom it sells through six large department stores and 15 smaller stores. Sir Patrick likes to tell how this came about...
...planning. Reason: they're in short supply here. Transportation should be easy. I leave London in the afternoon, am due to reach Minnesota next evening. Then it's just a matter of eating, drinking, lying out in the sun and listening to the grass grow...
...make Nazis out of people who never were Nazis before," snarled Henrietta von Schirach, when the New York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins visited the camp last week. "Please tell your General Clay I hope he will not treat me in such a fashion that my children will grow up to hate America." Luise Funk, a witch-eyed redhead, echoed this threat of future hatred: "The things happening now to the German people are a humiliation they will never forget." That plump valkyrie, former Actress Emmy Sonnemann Göring, had a specific grievance. Recently one of the camp...
...Stanford Professor Lewis Madison Terman thinks he knows pretty well what becomes of bright boys & girls. Twenty-five years ago he had picked 1,400 of California's prize pupils (with I.Q.s of 140) to watch them grow. Periodically he bombarded them with questionnaires, hopefully read Who's Who to look for their names, and during the war kept up a steady correspondence with those overseas. He has just finished a book about them (The Gifted Child Grows Up), and last week sent the 1,400 a 51-page preview...