Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dallas is a city of promoters--were it otherwise, "Big D" would not have survived the frontier. Dallas began as a log cabin in 1841. Hundreds of miles from the nearest rail transportation and plagued by lack of water, Dallas never deserved to grow into a city. But in the 1870's a group of early Dallas boosters (mostly ex-Confederate colonels from Tennessee bribed the Houston and Texas Central Railroad to come to Dallas. The Texas and Pacific building West, though, wouldn't be bought or persuaded. A crafty state legislator from Dallas tacked a rider onto the railroad...
...muddled plea for brotherhood, G.I.s gape idly while two Negroes in uniform are beaten up by drawling American soldiers enjoying a "coon hunt." To complete a $50 wager, a couple of the boys gun down a puppy. There are looting episodes too. But when Foreman's lads grow misty-eyed over a music box waltz, they prove they are vandals with heart...
Friendly Rivals. On the great marshy peninsula of Médoc, the celebrated vines that grow over 200 chalky acres of Château Lafite-Rothschild produce a grand cru that is the pride of Guy, Elie, Alain and Edmond. Next door, at his Château Mouton Rothschild, Philippe wages a battle for oenological equality with his fond cousins and competitors, trying to persuade the French government's wine agency to revise its official 1855 wine classification, which listed Mouton slightly below Lafite. Philippe has commissioned, among others, Cocteau, Braque, Dali and Lippold to design labels...
Railroads no longer grow by stretching new lines of track-they simply merge. Last week the U.S. got two new, big rail systems by merger. The Supreme Court gave final affirmation to a union of the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Baltimore & Ohio, which together will form an 11,000-mile system stretching through the East and Midwest. A few days later, the Interstate Commerce Commission approved plans for the Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard Railroad, long fierce rivals, to join. The 12,300-mile linkup, stretching through the Southeast from Florida to Virginia, will make the new road...
...Searle started at twelve as a summertime tablet mixer, became the $35-a-week treasurer of the small firm after graduating in pharmacy from the University of Michigan. When he took over as president in 1936, he prescribed a strong tonic to make the Skokie, III., company grow. He trimmed its product line from 800 to 16 quality items. The list has since grown to 30, and now includes Enovid, a contraceptive pill whose booming international sales have also boosted the sale of other Searle products. Last year the company earned $13.8 million on sales of $56 million...