Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred and eighty-two soldiers and two officers had been charged with taking some $200,000 in black market cigarets alone. The trials had begun and some of the defendants had already spoken up. As they talked, the line of uniformed racketeers seemed to grow & grow...
...Army Way. When they see the prestige enjoyed by flyers in the Army, and reflect on Admiral King's insistence on seniority in promotion (which is tough on younger flying officers), naval airmen grow even hotter under the collar. Among top-rankers on General Marshall's staff is the Air Forces' Major General Clayton L. Bissell, acting chief of G2. Another airman, Lieut. General Joseph T. McNarney, was Marshall's deputy before he was in command of a theater...
Mabel Thorp Boardman, 80-odd, able, stately, longtime (25 years) secretary of the American Red Cross, who has watched the membership grow from 300 to some 30,000,000, retired (after 44 years) last week, received a Distinguished Service Medal (first one to be awarded by the Red Cross) and a citation from President Roosevelt for being the "inspirer" of the organization. Victorian Miss Boardman, one of Washington's top society hostesses, who looks amazingly like Great Britain's Queen Mary,* planned to write her memoirs...
Since few U.S. farmers can grow wheat cheaply enough to compete with Canadian and Argentine wheat, the Wickard plan might reduce U.S. wheat production to 800 million bu. a year v. the 1.1 billion bu. 1944 crop. But the Federal Government would not have to spend millions of dollars, as it did before the war, to bail out farmers by buying up surplus wheat. Day after Wickard spoke, the price of wheat broke...
...Oklahoma Panhandle to plant a test crop. Johnson believed that the beans could be seeded, grown and harvested during the three to four months between the end of the winter wheat harvest and the beginning of fall planting for next season's wheat. He was right. The beans grow well when there is sufficient rainfall in late summer...