Word: growths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gracchi, well-to-do representatives of a great family tradition, allied themselves with the plebs, or common people. Yet the Gracchan attempt to solve the land crisis that had been caused by the growth of the monopolistic latifundia, or great estates, was beaten back by the republican Senate...
...American Veterans of World War II, has begun bidding against the big three veterans' organizations of World War I. The new group, known as AMVETS, is only one of scores of new veterans' organizations that bloomed last summer. But two months ago AMVETS began a beanstalk growth, has since formed a loose confederation with 114 other World War II groups. High-powered AMVETS now claims 125,000 members, has a suite of offices in Washington, D.C. Last week it called on the remaining organizations of World War II veterans to meet in Kansas City next month to consider...
...which it now runs for the U.S.-and operate it postwar? Big Steel's chairman answered: DPC and the company have not discussed postwar operation. He had another dampener for Westerners, who passionately believe that operation of Geneva is an absolute "must" if the West's industrial growth is not to be retarded. He pointed out that Geneva's current production of 600,000 tons a year is mainly in ship plates, and said: Geneva cannot turn out the types of steel needed postwar until another $30,000,000 to $90,000,000 is spent...
Sometimes nerves, like pollarded willows or clipped adenoids, will spread and grow after pruning. The growth rate may be an eighth of an inch a day, or even faster. This fact has been the basis of infantile-paralysis treatments by Lieut. Commander Harvey Ellsworth Billig, Jr. and Physiologist Anthonie Van Harreveld of the California Institute of Technology...
...days after the shipping embargo, President Roosevelt came to the support of Hull's action. Said the President: "This situation presents the extraordinary paradox of the growth of Nazi-Fascist in fluence and the increasing application of Nazi-Fascist methods in a country ... at the very time that those forces of aggression are drawing ever closer in final defeat and judgment in Europe and elsewhere in the world. . . . The Argentine Government has repudiated solemn inter-American obligations...