Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moral and spiritual values. The women of this nation are more concerned in their day-to-day work, I think, than are men with these values. They have the job of rearing our young, those youngsters who are so dear to all our hearts, and they want them to grow up with the right kind of values imbedded in them, so that as they meet the problems of life they will always have a certain kind of principle or doctrine or belief to fall back on that will help guide them through the rough spots. I think the women therefore...
While Jamaica strove to cut its imports, a rich new export was discovered almost accidentally. In 1942 a Jamaican rancher wondered why he could not grow grass on his estate near Saint Ann's Bay and sent a soil sample to a U.S. laboratory for analysis. The test proved that the soil was rich in bauxite, the source mineral for aluminum. Two U.S. aluminum companies (Kaiser and Reynolds) and one Canadian (Aluminium Ltd., known locally as Aljam) rushed in, staked out one of the world's biggest bauxite reserves, and are now shipping more than...
...written with the advice of U.S. farm experts, makes many changes. Recognizing that one good solution is to get the landless mountain peasants onto fertile, government-owned lowlands (which can grow three crops of corn a year), it tempts them with homesteads at low prices. Recognizing also the popular demand for land redistribution, it provides for the well-compensated expropriation of idle parts of big estates and their division among the landless. The new plan offers technical assistance, credit, housing and "fundamental agrarian education" aimed at turning the withdrawn Indians into cash-crop farmers and cash-spending consumers. In contrast...
...biggest privately owned power producer is American Gas & Electric Co., a seven-state utility network whose twelve major plants turn 10 million tons of coal a year into power for nearly 5,000,000 people from Lake Michigan to the Tennessee Valley. Last week AGE announced a program to grow still bigger; it will spend $700 million to boost its 4,000,000 kw. capacity (enough to light 7,000,000 homes for a year) by 65% in the next five years, the most ambitious five-year expansion ever tackled by a private U.S. utility. The program will give...
...Since college should be a place where a student can read, grow, and expand," Leach continued, "and is the beginning and not the end of education," a program in defense work could provide a trained group of people who could go into the Defense Department as a career...