Word: growths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the industry's fast growth during the war-when plastics took the place of scarce strategic materials-most plastics makers still have not caught up with demand. Though many a Gloomy Gus predicted that plastics would glut the market when scarce materials became more plentiful, they are now displacing metals in some lines (e.g., toys, 40% of which are now made of plastics). They have become standard materials for flash light cases, radio cabinets, toilet seats, shower curtains, raincoats, furniture coverings, electrical appliances. They have even been tried as eye-catching bathing suits (see cut), but wearers complain...
...barbecued lamb shoulder or shoulder chops are delicious, but no, you would rather pay from 20 to 30? a pound more for a leg or loin chops. You imagine bone weighs much more than it does . . . The fat that your children need for normal healthy growth is going in the tallow basket for 8? a pound and you are paying for it with higher prices...
TIME's Young Bull is no "cute trick." Foddered on war's destruction, Europe's need, and two-year chunks of young men's lives, the heifer's growth will be a national disgrace...
...Aerosporin, newly discovered by the research team of Dr. George Brownlee at Wellcome Laboratory, England, is: 1. A new fertilizes which hastens plant growth. 2. A new antibiotic which proved in tests many times more effective than streptomycin. 3. A new drug which helps keep pilots of supersonic planes from "blacking out." 4. The cohesive substance which keeps atomic particles together. 5. A hitherto-undetected element existing only in the stratosphere...
Eyeing this never-ending struggle to make the jammed, misshapen city run, many of its critics wondered if it were an outmoded mechanism-or an incurable growth. It had burgeoned into its present, enormous, throbbing form through three great influences-its port, its position as the financial center of the nation, and the great waves of immigration from Europe. All had declined in importance. Was New York going downhill? To Bill O'Dwyer-and to millions of his fellow citizens-the mere suggestion would be blasphemy...