Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson based his forecast for a 1965 G.N.P. of about $660 billion on the prospect that business investment in plants and equipment will grow "nearly as much" in 1965 as it did in 1964 (about 14%); that "current rapid gains in sales, and slim stocks in 1964, should produce a higher rate of production for inventory"; that residential construction "will remain high"; that state and local governments "will continue to enlarge their buying." Most important, he said, consumer confidence is now, and will remain, strong...
...pleasures grow...
...almost white marigold called "Hopeful," from Philadelphia's Burpee Co., which has a standing offer of $10,000 to anyone who produces a seed that will grow a pure white one; the offer still stands...
This one-eighth of the nation is chiefly formed and fashioned by the schools, where teen-agers spend half of their waking hours. If Lyndon Johnson succeeds in getting "every child the best education the nation can provide," the schools' responsibility will grow ever greater. And by and large the pattern works: in the mid-1960s, smarter, subtler and more sophisticated kids are pouring into and out of more expert, exacting and experimental schools...
...convinced that if as much money were put into syphilis research as went into research on polio - which did not kill or cripple as many people - a vaccine could be found in a few years. But the spirochete of human syphilis is a maddening germ that refuses to grow in the test tube or in most animals. And syphilis research is under way at only four or five U.S. medical centers...