Word: thrive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such soil, formed by grasses, is favorable to grasses. When man plows a chernozem, his wheat or corn thrive mightily. They are grasses...
Profits. Slimmed-down General Aniline & Film Corp., which recently agreed to lease over 3,500 of its basic patents (TIME, March 29), seemed to thrive on the reduced diet. By paring costs and concentrating on fast-selling dyes and photographic equipment, President Jack Frye (who runs G.A.F. for the Office of Alien 'Property) upped half-year sales 25% to $44.439,000, profits more than...
...Camargo is convinced, however, that the Amazon cannot thrive on rubber alone. Farmers must live during the seven years that their rubber plantations are growing to bearing age. He believes they must devote permanently at least 40% of their land to other crops. He has already found one other successful crop: jute...
Texas, of course, has its fair share of demagogues, rabble rousers and just plain exhibitionists, many of whom are continually running for office. They thrive and prosper on just such free publicity as you have given Windmill Lyndon Johnson [TIME, June...
...about another old enemy of man: worms. There are some 2,000,000,000 people in the world and around 2,200,000,000 cases of worm infestation (some people have more than one kind of worms), reported the Rockefeller Institute's Dr. Norman R. Stoll. Most worms thrive in the tropics, home of half the human race, and a reservoir of food and raw materials for the rest of the world...