Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cleveland's top hoodlum and racketeer, Alex (Shondor) Birns, and one-times bingo king AlFlagel. He has also done "favors" for the his 36,000 registered electors ("I figure I do 1,000 favors a year"), and remembers the children in his ward with Christmas and zoo parties ("They grow up and become voters...
...create new products and make old ones faster, better and cheaper than ever before. Although isotopes are still in their commercial infancy, the Atomic Energy Commission estimates that industry's wonderful new servant will suve U.S. companies almost $500 million this year alone. By 1962 the savings will grow to $5 billion annually, or enough to repay the annual cost of the Government's entire atomic-energy program...
...million in the red by the end of fiscal 1958. But for fiscal 1959 he hopes to balance Japanese trade by boosting exports to $3.1 billion while holding imports to $3.2 billion. Instead of leaping ahead by 10% to 20% each year, national income and industrial production may only grow 3% or 4% next year. Says Finance Minister Ichimada, who calls himself "a realistic optimist": "Our keynote is austerity. There can be no improvement in living standards without growth. But stability is lost if the foundations of growth are destroyed...
FEED-GRAIN CROP will grow to new high this year, slice pork prices next summer. Because of favorable weather and 47-million-ton carryover from surplus in earlier years, output of feed corn, oats, barley and grain sorghums will rise 6% to 213 million tons...
...Cromwell, and if Cromwell had been a lady, the view might have been true enough. As it is, it tells a Cinderella story of little Julia Ashley, who is encountered competing with Irish pigs for some swill left behind by the Roundhead soldiery who laid Ireland waste. She grows up to be adopted by a dashing cavalier, farmed out to a Dutch orphanage and, in the natural course of events as they happen in female historical novels, mistress of a great plantation in the Dutch East Indies. Cloves is what they grow in the islands, hence the smell...