Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the President, for the first time since his illness, was able to leave his bed and sit (for 15 minutes one day and half an hour the next) in a leather chair. As the President's strength continued to grow, Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams gave the Cabinet word that was good news for the U.S. and the whole free world: the President is now ready to dispose of all problems that any department head might hesitate to settle on his own authority. Gradually but persistently, Dwight Eisenhower was getting a new grip on the tiller...
...living contradiction to the widespread-and wrong-explanation of U.S. farm productivity: the notion that the U.S. has "new" and naturally hyper-fertile soil. Joe successfully farms acres that would make a Polish peasant blanch with dismay. Yet he devoutly believes that his rocky slopes "can be made to grow good crops-just as good as the flat land, or maybe even better, with enough work. I'll make them grow everything they can, and I'll take care of them." Taking care of them means poring over his soil-conservation folder, the most precious document...
...overextended. At home, Farmer Menderes staunchly refused (and still does) to extend the income tax to farmers, who represent 80% of the population and the bulk of Menderes' party's electoral support. The country exhausted its foreign-exchange reserves and ran up foreign debts, which continue to grow at the rate of $3,000,000 weekly. For months Turkey has been living hand-to-mouth, paying such urgent bills as last June's oil-company duns out of current earnings...
Business at Gunpoint. The central proposal of the new Five-Year Plan: to increase government spending on economic development to $17.6 billion in five years, doubling "public sector" or state-owned industry. The private sector would be encouraged to grow all the while, but on a more moderate basis. Thus the Indian program falls short of complete state socialism. Nehru has long argued, as Britain's Laborites now do, that socialism is feasible without full nationalization. But Nehru favors controls over private enterprise. "An army," he explained, "does not occupy a country by placing a soldier in every nook...
...every possible way. But no one has figured out why they thrive in so few places, or how they reproduce. One theory is that water currents of just the right kind are needed to bounce the marimos along the bottom and detach bits of fuzzy green stuff to grow into young marimos. No marimo lover, however skilled, has duplicated this process...