Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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National Warning. At Kennedy's request, a task force of economists headed by M.I.T. Professor Paul Samuelson, one of Kennedy's most trusted counselors, delivered a thick report which warned that 1) the slump is bad, and 2) it could very easily grow worse, with unemployment topping the post-World War II peak of 7½% Among other things, it urged fat federal unemployment subsidies to guarantee every jobless worker at least 50% of his wages for 39 weeks; big Government spending programs for health, welfare, urban renewal, school buildings and teachers' salaries; more construction of highways...
...particles in smoke. They cannot gather into larger drops unless an outside "something" makes them do it. In temperate climates this something is generally the low temperature of high altitudes, which turns some of the droplets to small ice crystals. Since ice has an attraction for water, these droplets grow at the expense of the cloud's smoke-sized water droplets. Eventually the cloud turns to snowflakes that are big and heavy enough to fall through the air and hit the earth as snow or rain. All this can sometimes be made to happen by releasing materials (such...
...peasants were amazed. The Parisians had rented 900 unfertile acres. "When we cleared away huge amounts of pebbles," recalls Vincent's great uncle, Chief Farmer Abel Thibout, "the peasants shook their heads and said, 'Don't remove them; they shade the soil and help the crops grow.' " But in eight months the city kibbutzers had cleared 185 acres and planted potatoes, beans, barley and other grains. Their potato crop astonished local government agriculture experts, and they have done so well with their other crops that government agencies have lent them better land, banks are considering loans...
...subject of the biggest economic argument of 1960: economic growth. After a historic growth rate of about 3% over the last half-century, the U.S. has slipped in the last four years to an annual rate of just over 2%. In 1960 everyone agreed that the U.S. had to grow faster. New York's Governor Rockefeller plumped for 5% or 6%. The Democratic platform came out for 5%. Many businessmen cited 32% as a more realistic goal...
...last of the great 19th century rationalist optimists, that in his Pygmalion, Professor Henry Higgins teaches Eliza Doolittle into existence. Give Shaw an actress, a breed he regarded as intrinsically brainless, and the sage would begin playing post office, or frequently postcard. Absence definitely made Shaw's heart grow fonder, and for added emotional insurance the women were al ways married, as was he. The two most celebrated of these epistolary romances involved Mrs. Pat Campbell and Ellen Terry, but the headiest, cranially speaking, has only just come to light. Shaw's heroine in this instance...