Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stones everywhere in the black earth. The Indians hoe around the rocks and around the corn, deft and sure in upturning the green, prolific weeds within a fraction of an inch of the corn shoots--never uprooting the corn, never cutting through the bean plants or squash vines they grow with the corn...
Kennedy's program set out to grapple with the fact that U.S. farmers constantly overproduce feed grains-particularly corn-thereby causing prices to fall and Government surplus stockpiles to bulge. To induce the farmer to grow less, the program bribed him with subsidies: for cutting his normal acreage of corn or grain sorghums by 20%, the Government paid him 50% of the value of the forgone crop. This payment was made either in cash or in the form of grain taken from the surplus stockpiles, which the farmer could then sell or feed to his stock...
...late 19505, but during the nuclear-test moratorium that began in 1958, the radiation level of the high atmosphere gradually decreased, and most airlines stowed their Geiger counters in mothballs. Recent Soviet tests have started the trouble all over again, and this time it is expected to grow worse and last longer. Jetliners of the 19605 fly well up in the stratosphere, where radioactive fission products linger for years...
...black Lincoln Continental convertible, sometimes writes as many as six songs a day, and is working on a Broadway musical about teen-age American students in France. Figuring that his fans will be with him for what seems like forever ("Remember, those little girls are going to grow up and be 29 someday"), he is trying to make good on a promise he cooed to them in song last year: / hope that I can sing for you Five years from today...
...aerospace industry is destined to grow, and is bound to change. It will attract steadily more investment, perhaps as much as $18 billion yearly by 1966. It will need more people-fewer unskilled workers, more scientists and technicians. The rapid forward tumble of progress will make for quicker obsolescence, shorter production runs. Today's wide variety of experimental space vehicles will shake down to a few reliable systems. And there will be more incestuous relations among the aerospace suppliers-being top contractors on one project, subcontractors on another...