Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spreading fast. In the past few years, the number of U.S. specialty-food stores has doubled to 6,000, and there are another 6,000 gourmet corners in groceries, drug and department stores, supermarkets, etc. It is in the supermarkets that the greatest potential market is beginning to grow. Supermarkets, which usually work on a 16% to 20% markup and a 1.6% profit margin, are turning to the fancy foods because of the high markup...
...Cheryomushki district, near Moscow University. But before this sentimentality can get out of hand, bulldozers move in. All the old decadence is demolished, and a modern housing development rises on the ruins. Construction workers sing at their jobs; new tenants arrive; all is youth and enthusiasm. Friendships grow and love blossoms...
...million dam across the Niger River, on top of which lie the tracks for the still nonexistent Trans-Saharan Railroad (the railroad station is currently being used as an office building). The Office has reclaimed more than 108,000 acres of desert where cotton and rice can now grow, hopes eventually to have 2,000,000 acres under cultivation...
...would be backed by substantial boosts in military and economic aid to the three Northern Tier countries. Their importance as a link in the chain of anti-Soviet defenses would be undiminished by the defection of Iraq, whose territory does not even touch the Soviet frontiers.* Around this might grow something like the Colombo Plan, an 18-nation agreement for economic cooperation to which the U.S. also adhered without a formal treaty. To mystified members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the State Department's William Rountree explained that by signing the London Declaration...
...zaibatsu grow bigger almost by the week. Fortnight ago Mitsui Bank President Kiichiro Sato, 65, a nimble-witted financial expert who has spent his entire life working for the Mitsui cause, engineered the merger of two of the biggest offshoots of Mitsui's prewar trading division in a major deal that will form Japan's largest single trading company, with assets of some $500 million. "The occupation did not kill the zaibatsu," says Economics Professor Ryosei Kobayashi of Tokyo's Senshu University. "It just reorganized them...