Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...butcher. Businessmen know that this is not so - and perhaps their best proof is the world's largest firm: the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Few corporations in the world are as intimately woven into the life of a nation as A.T.& T. It not only helped the nation grow and prosper, but helped make the telephone a universal instrument that changed the world's mores, entered its drama and literature, and became indispensable to teenagers and tugboat captains alike. Most people never notice the telephone until it goes out of order-and a good many believe...
...than-cost rate of 2% interest, to bring electricity to thousands of farm families that had none. REA did its job, and well: now more than 95% have such service. The necessity for a federally subsidized REA system has obviously decreased with REA success, yet REA has continued to grow as a dug-in interest, representing assets, loans, etc., worth billions and often generating as much political as electrical power...
...study of the possibilities of fertilizing the ocean surface water, so that more marine life can grow...
...science's deepest mysteries is what makes living creatures grow and what makes most of them stop growing as they reach maturity. In Nature, Professor Carroll M. Williams of Harvard describes research that may cast light on this basic mystery. He has extracted from mammalian tissues a "golden oil" that, injected into a caterpillar, stops its development and prevents its transformation into a butterfly...
Nevertheless, almost every economist from New Dealing Leon Keyserling to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund experts and Harvard's Sumner Slichter would like to see the U.S. grow faster. They agree that the old 3% target is outdated, and that the goal should be 5% a year from...