Word: growths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointee, who was born in Hoboken and educated at Columbia, is the author of "Configurations of Culture Growth," a study of civilizations after the manner of Spengler and Toynbee, which has been widely acclaimed since its publication two years ago. He was recently awarded the Viking Medal for the most distinguished contributions to the study of anthropology during the last decade, and has also done extensive work in archaeology and linguistics...
Even in the great winter-wheat fields of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, where the biggest crop of all time is in prospect, the growth was ten days behind schedule; farmers had been forced to replant early corn and cotton. Many had not been able to plow for row crops...
Biggest numerical gain between 1926 and 1941-42 was scored by the largest single sect,* the Roman Catholics, with 4.3 million. But by percentages, Roman Catholicism is doing no better than the general trend: during the same period, "the 43 larger Protestant denominations showed a combined rate of growth of nearly 24%-almost identical with the percentage gain of the Roman Catholic Church...
...Farben Co., as war criminals, the first such indictment against businessmen in history. Among those whom it placed in the same category as Hitler and Göring were Farben's board chairman Hermann Schmitz and Georg von Schnitzler, sales manager, who were mainly responsible for the growth of Farben into the world's most powerful chemical giant. The U.S. charged the 24 civilians with fomenting and waging aggressive war, mass murder, plunder and "complete synchronization" with the Nazi High Command. The burden of the indictment was that, without Farben, the Nazis could not have...
...technological improvement. A startling example of what improvement in productivity means: national output in 1940 was 27 times larger than in 1850, though the labor force was only nine times greater and worked only 43 hours a week instead of 70. If such productivity continues its average rate of growth since 1850 (18% a decade), the U.S. will easily meet the estimated demands for 1950-60. If it grows at the rate which prevailed in. the last two decades (20%), the U.S. would nearly meet estimated needs as well...