Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With soil so rich that almost any crop will grow, Brazil is potentially one of the world's greatest agricultural nations. It exports cognac, champagne and wine to Argentina, the U.S. and Europe-including 30 million liters last year to France. It is the world's No. 1 producer and exporter of coffee, ranks seventh in soybeans and rice; sixth in tomatoes, sweet potatoes and peanuts; fifth in jute; fourth in tobacco and cotton; second in sisal, cane sugar, cacao, corn, oranges. Yet its agricultural technology is primitive and its export potentiality (it grows more bananas and pineapple...
...find that they might well have been tramping their own woodlands. There in the rain forests of southern Chile were vast stands of beech, remarkably similar to the trees of their native land. The damp Chilean glades were greenly upholstered with ferns and mosses almost exactly like those that grow in Australasia. Even swarming insects looked the same as the insects of home. How did delicate plant and insect life ever make the difficult migration across great southern oceans or the hostile icecap of Antarctica...
...England with gold and dollars with which to shore up the pound. But the only thing that could strengthen the pound permanently would be a spurt in Britain's industrial growth rate-currently among the lowest in Western Europe. Said Selwyn Lloyd: "For national economic survival, we must grow . . . We must see to it that wages, salaries and other incomes remain within the limits justified by increased productivity...
Plants that grow in the open waste a large part of the sunlight that hits them. Their leaves look green because they reflect most of the green and yellow light at the center of the visible spectrum. Their chlorophyll absorbs chiefly red and blue light, so only a small part of sunlight's total energy is used to turn water and carbon dioxide into sugar, cellulose and other materials that plants need for growth...
...sunlight that falls on his fields is free. But commercial florists, whose greenhouses already blaze with artificial light to speed the flowering of their plants, must pay heavily for electric energy, and much of it is wasted on light that plants cannot use. For florists, and for housewives who grow African violets in dark apartments, Sylvania's special fluorescent lamp, called Gro-Lux, may mean a significantly smaller electric bill...