Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...different is to be indecent.' " It is a crowded age, especially in Europe, whose population has increased from 180,000,000 to 460,000,000 since 1800. Ortega y Gasset denies that Europe is being Americanized, says "Americanization" is a worldwide, spontaneous growth...
Frigidaire v. Upstarts. The last five years have brought dazzling growth to the electric refrigeration industry. Production leaped from 390,000 units in 1927 to 965,000 last year. Public utility companies have pushed sales to their customers to build up power consumption. At the forefront of the expansion have been General Electric, Kelvinator, General Motors (Frigidaire), Westinghouse. Servel's Electrolux has led the gas field. During the Depression many a smaller manufacturing concern has added electric refrigerators as a profitable sideline. Examples: Crosley Radio Corp., Grigsby-Grunow Co. (radios), Wurlitzer Co. (musical instruments)-all concentrating...
...pausing for two weeks at the door of a bedroom in Chicago's Drake Hotel, last week Death came, as it must to all women, to Edith Rockefeller McCormick. Once she was called the world's richest woman. But cancer makes no distinctions. Two years ago she had a growth removed from her breast. It reappeared in her liver. When she moved to the Drake from her mansion on Lake Shore Drive in June (TIME, Aug. 1), she and her doctors knew the end was near...
...because of Peiping. Despite the growth of Nanking and the commercial supremacy of Shanghai, Peiping still looks like the capital of China. It is one of the tourist centres of the world-more so than ever now that the vast, incredible Forbidden City with its acres of palaces beneath acres of yellow tile roofs has been opened to visitors. Manchuria may go to Japan, Canton and the south may secede, Outer Mongolia may be quietly absorbed by Russia, but so long as the central Nanking government has a semblance of control over Peiping they can claim with justice...
...comradely summer in the seaside cottage rented jointly by their families. But this year adolescence has made their old comradeship a little tense. Very fond of each other, they are ashamed of the word "love," take it mutually for granted that some day. . . . But the future gets a forced growth when Philippe meets a ripe lady who has a conveniently neighboring villa. She casts a greedily speculative eye on Philippe's 16-year-old bronzed body. When he brings her flowers, she does the rest. He is horrified, fascinated, sneaks back to her at night, again & again, again. Vinca...