Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weeds & Seeds. In the reconversion field Congress let things grow pretty much as nature intended. It did lop off some Presidential wartime powers. Just as baffled as most U.S. people, it thrashed around in the undergrowth of price control, came up with a compromise OPA bill; no one has any idea whether it will live and bear fruit. Inexplicably it plowed under all effective housing acts. It also endorsed the silver bloc's raid on the Treasury, which will cost U.S. taxpayers plenty and further demoralize the currencies of China, India and Mexico...
Iran dropped out of the headlines ten weeks ago when the Red Army finally left under U.N. pressure. But Soviet influence did not leave with the troops. It would remain and probably grow as long as Iran was a disorganized land in which the Western democracies were known to the people as exploiters rather than as friends. Recent events indicated more trouble ahead for the democracies...
...watched one of these affairs. Outwardly, the procession was orderly and dignified. But as it passed through Trieste you could feel the tension grow as Italians gathered along the sidewalks to watch in silence. It was the setup for an incident of the kind which "provoke" Tito to action: "Partisan's funeral attacked by Italian Fascists...
...thunderstorm begins with a tremendous uprush of air, which rises to 16,000 feet or more. As the storm mounts in intensity, the winds reverse themselves, blow downward. Heavy rain is no measure of a storm's violence; the wildest gusts often grow in rainless thunderheads or even in harmless looking clouds...
Some 56 million U.S. people, week in & week out, go to the movies. The nation's 1946 film audience is the biggest in box-office history.*For optimists who wistfully hope that the movies may some day grow up to be Art-i.e., from mediocre to first-rate entertainment-this is bad news...