Word: grows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...budget estimate showing a net deficit of $695,000,000 for fiscal 1938, $277,000,000 more than had been estimated last April (see p. 19). During the rest of the week Franklin Roosevelt emphasized & re-emphasized two points: 1) that he does not expect the deficit to grow any larger, and 2) that he expects the Federal Government to take in as much as it spends in the fiscal year ending with June...
...great musicians were prodigies, but not all prodigies grow up to be great musicians. Nevertheless, last week the U. S. was teeming with precocious moppets of seven, eight, nine and up who were practicing or performing with more than common ability...
Thus relentlessly concluded last week was the fall clip of Texas mohair. Twice a year, in October and February, the 3,000,000 Texas goats which supply four-fifths of the nation's crop of mohair are rounded up to be clipped. Every year they grow some 12,500,000 Ib. of hair which sells for around 60? a Ib. to people who turn it into upholstery...
...vegetation of west central Texas agrees with the Angora goats who grow the best quality mohair and every bush and tree is nibbled clean as high as goat can reach. A huge fortune from Texas mohair was made by Charles Schreiner, a French immigrant who started as a merchant, turned to banking, prospered as a goat rancher when a 34? a Ib. tariff began keeping out Turkish and South African mohair. At one time he owned a goat ranch twice as large as Rhode Island. At his death a few years ago, Louis Schreiner -known to Texas goat herders...
...Service bureaucracy) to a school attended by Apaches. When one day he saw an unrepentant backslider from the start getting the worst of it in a fight with Apache students. Myron jumped in, was both delighted and distressed to discover he liked righting. That summer he let his hair grow, found riding better fun than driving a car, gambling songs prettier than many a mission hymn, backslid in his thoughts about pretty 12-year-old Buckskin's daughter, began to have his doubts about mission morality. In this tormented state he set off to unburden himself to Mr. Butler...