Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the Army Air Forces had mined Tokyo harbor (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), and stepped up the Superfortress fire attacks on Japan's industry to 500-plane strength - equivalent in bomb tonnage to all but a few of the heaviest air strikes against Germany. The attacks would grow heavier. If there was anything left of Tokyo or Nagasaki or Nagoya or of any of Japan's industrial plant by the time the U.S. Army and Marines moved in, it would not be through lack of attention from the Air Forces...
...soon for the health of her democratic neighbors, Germany must be restored to some sort of controlled existence in which her collieries and mills could produce, her crops grow and be distributed...
...following radiogram: ". . . Greetings to my fellow artists in the Society of Illustrators. Good wishes for success of their efforts towards rehabilitation of war veterans. Would say that we drawers of pictures have easiest means of communicating ideas, therefore we have direct educative responsibility in helping our two democracies to grow up in sympathy and friendship. We could make a start to better understanding by ... expressing the fundamental truth that in these days the common man of Britain and of America is pretty much the same .fellow with the same standards and the same wish to live and let live...
...White House. The caisson and its bright-colored burden rolled slowly along, small in the broad street from which Franklin Roosevelt had so often waved to cheering thousands. The sun seemed to grow hotter, the drums throbbed and muttered on & on. At last, the caisson ground up the graveled White House drive. The coffin was carried out of sight into the executive mansion...
...fall, the angler's luck improves as the surviving little fish grow larger and harder for the big fish to catch. By winter, the fishing should be even better. But with cold weather, a fishes digestion slows down; it takes 350 hours to digest the same minnow it would digest in several summer hours...