Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lumberjacks from Michigan and Wisconsin arrived in boots, gay plaids, several days' growth of beard. They sang such lumber camp ballads as Never Take the Horseshoe from the Door, danced jigs, reels, clogs. Average age of the Michigan group: 67. The Wisconsin lumberjacks played on a one-string Norwegian instrument called the salmodikon. Seventy-one-year-old Sven Svenson, in a chef's costume, chipped a two-inch piece of birchbark from a log, put it to his lips and played a thin, shrill tune on the chip...
...season's enmity, the pain of growth...
...thymus (sweetbread) is a gland located above the heart, at the root of the neck. Together with the pituitary it controls growth through infancy (1 to 6 years) and childhood (6 to 14 years). It normally disappears at puberty...
...that through tax discrimination one State could strike at a whole corporation, not simply that part of the corporation doing business within its boundaries. Said Henry Ward Beer, old-time trial counsel to the Federal Trade Commission: "The long advocated amendment of our anti-trust laws to prevent the growth of monopoly has been effectively accomplished through the means of taxation...
...take a sizable chunk of A. & P.'s profits. Long were the conferences in A. & P. executive offices in Manhattan last week but no company comment was forthcoming, an "official spokesman" merely observing: "Mass distribution is not static." Two alternatives to chain store merchandising are already showing hardy growth-the supermarket and the voluntary chain. Not unlike the "Iowa Plan" by which oil companies sell filling stations to their operators (TIME, Nov. 23), the voluntary chain consists of stores owned and operated by independent merchants but serviced and supplied by a central organization. A. & P. could become a voluntary...