Word: growths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army investigators attributed the tremendous growth of the rich traffic to a made-to-order setup - the hungry, isolated markets of China, well-connected local gangs, loose currency controls, the inflow of large quantities of U.S. supplies to India. With a corner on the only available means of transportation, the greedy among U.S. air crews were sure to be sucked...
Help the Farmer. This kind of buying by co-ops is a cause for alarm to many a businessman, who looks with suspicion on the rapid growth of U.S. cooperatives (they have increased their business eleven times in 25 years) and the tax advantages which are now accelerating their growth. No cooperative organization need pay an income tax so long as it allocates the profits from its sales to the members on a proportionate basis, and farm cooperatives receive even further advantages under Section 101 (12) of the Internal Revenue Code...
...rate the candidate privately, on a nine-point scale which evaluates, in order of decreasing weight, his: 1) teaching effectiveness, 2) research and publication, 3) university activities, 4) value to the community, 5) cooperation, 6) grasp of his field, 7) general range of interest, 8) current rate of professional growth, 9) recognition by his profession...
...could give a complete answer. Speculation centered on 1) an astonishing growth in the black market, fed by nonsmoking G.I.s and G.I. hijackers (one officer estimated that 40% of the cigarets going into one big French port were being illicitly sidetracked), 2)priority of ammunition on shipping space, 3) distribution blunders...
...Growth of the State. In attempting to account for the long decline and fall of Rome, Durant adopts a "multiple causation" theory. The metals in the Roman State-owned mines ran out. As the old freehold farming class lost its lands to the big owners of the latifundia, the productivity of the soil decreased. The State dole of grain brought men into the cities to join the workless proletariat, and the spoil of Spain, Gaul, Syria and Egypt made Romans think less and less about making fortunes through honest labor...