Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example of the use of sensationalism in an attempt to smear the trade-union movement." Like Pipe Fitter McNamara, Plumber Meany pointed out that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. has kicked out the Teamsters and a couple of other corrupt unions. Neither mentioned that organized labor allowed its ugly situation to grow uglier for years-until the McClellan committee came along...
...Leeward Islands (pop. 131,600) grow sugar and sea-island cotton, are dominated by Antigua (pronounced An-tee-ga), tourist capital of the smaller islands...
...supply for too small a demand. During the Suez crisis, oil producers outside the Middle East expanded by leaps and bounds to supply Europe with oil. When Suez was over, they failed to cut back rapidly enough, were caught with overproduction in the face of markets that did not grow as fast as expected. In Europe, the Middle East's biggest oil market, oil consumption will climb only 4% or 5% this year instead of the forecast 6½%. At home, the U.S. recession will cut the increase in oil consumption to 2%-less than half of what...
...down food, claiming tables for beds. Said a stranded doctor: "It was touch-and-go as far as panic was concerned. We had no coordination and no one was there to organize the people into a cooperative group for the first 20 hours. You could actually feel the tension grow. A curt word here, a hard stare there...
...Snyder, N.Y. (pop. 18,000), an upper-middle-class suburb of Buffalo, a school survey found that kindergarten tots are at their TV sets roughly half as much time (14.2 hours a week) as in their classrooms, but as pupils grow up to the sixth grade they devote almost equal time to school (27½ hours a week) and televiewing (26 hours a week). Other findings: ¶ Offered a choice, 51% of the children would prefer a sound spanking to a parental blackout of their favorite program. ¶ Parents must threaten or nag 43% of the youngsters to wrench them...