Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joaquin Valley, most of them in Tulare, Kern, Kings and Fresno counties. The disease is not contagious and attacks animals as well as men. Why San Joaquin Valley is the centre of coccidioidomycosis, Dr. Dickson could not say. Perhaps the hot dry summers, he suggested, favor the growth and reproduction of the fungus. Certain it is that the disease is not spreading beyond the valley...
...tree used to flourish from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, from the Canadian frontier to North Carolina. It often reached a height of 100 feet, a ripe old age of 600 years. Today, where the once verdant chestnut forests stood, are scattered grey skeletons, a few scrubby little second growth trees. For Endothia parasitica, the chestnut fungus imported from Asia at the end of the last century, has systematically destroyed the American chestnut. Only a few stands are left in the Southern Appalachians and Endothia has started on them...
When matters reached this pass, cooling St. Louisans were inclined to change their angry tune. The American Artists' Congress warned against retarding cultural growth in St. Louis. The United Office and Professional Workers Union (C.I.O.) protested the proposal. Rich St. Louis families who have given the museum gifts and endowments worth $400,000 let it be known that these would lapse if the museum's administration were changed. Remarked the Museum Board's portly president, Architect Louis La Beaume: "There has been nothing like this since the monkey trial at Dayton, Tenn...
Displaying remarkable mushroom growth to residents of Cambridge since its founder laid the cornerstone four months ago, the white granite Littauer Center of Public Administration, first building in the University to feature granite and brick construction, has passed the two-thirds mark toward completion...
Getting down to specifics, Mr. Berle found the undistributed surplus tax defective because "though it retarded growth of existing large corporations, [it] gave them a perpetual franchise, not only to stay large, but to be the only large corporations in existence. No small business could grow up to a point where it could give its larger competitors any real battle...