Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's largest independent telephone company, General Telephone Corp. has been eclipsed by American Telephone & Telegraph Co. only because next to A. T. & T. any other corporation would look small. But General Telephone is a giant in its own right. Last week it planned to grow bigger. Its directors approved a deal, subject to stockholder approval on both sides, for General Telephone to take over Sylvania Electric Products Inc. on a share-for-share trade. The result: $1.5 billion in total assets, 76,000 employees...
...grow old ... I grow...
Beadle and Tatum irradiated masses of mold with X rays and searched for mutations in the spores. On the 299th try they got a mold that would not grow unless it was fed vitamin B-6 (pyridoxine). The normal mold makes vitamin B-6 for itself. They traced this deficiency to an X-ray-damaged gene that failed to produce the necessary enzyme (organic catalyst) for producing B6. This provided a means of studying genetic changes by corresponding changes in the organism's ability or failure to produce specific chemicals-thus giving genetics a new exactness and turning...
Precedents Broken. Virtually everyone at the Vatican, of whatever faction, wants an overhauling of the Vatican's administrative machinery, which Pius XII allowed to grow rusty, and Pope John wasted not a second. Among other steps...
Princeton has a lot of troubles, and when the facility becomes a substantial wedge into the foundations of the club system, it will have a lot more of them. But perhaps these troubles and Princeton's awareness of them are a good sign, an indication that Princeton is growing up. The appearance of Princeton as a perpetual country club even now is beginning to dissolve. With academic standards higher and admissions policies changed as they have been, especially since the War, to grant entrance more on personal and intellectual qualities and less on family precedent, perhaps Tiger Town will grow...