Word: thriving
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...about simple people with all the home-grown philosophy that is bound to blossom in Ulster. But St. John Ervine has put no haloes around his country folk; no sickening sentimentality. Instead, in the clash of old and new in rural Ireland Ervine has found the same problems which thrive in the largest city. And far from being "small townish," his characters are all the more interesting for being so much a part of the world...
Prosperous in war, the Cramps could not thrive in peace. In 1903 they lost control of their yards to the Morgan-Drexel banks, which later passed it on to the Harrimans. During World War I, Cramp's reached its all-time peak with 11,000 workers, built 46 destroyers and five transports in two years. But in an age of disarmament there was no place for Cramp's. Bidding too desperately for Navy business, it lost $5,741,000 in 1926. The next spring the huge 62-acre yards closed their gates...
Jehovah's Witnesses thrive on trouble. Last week, after the most harried season in their 62-year history, 35,000 Witnesses took over Detroit for five days, had themselves a rousing time...
...half-completed duplicate than a complement of the U. S. economy. Of all her major exports, agricultural and mineral, the U. S. takes only one: coffee. Yet of the coffee production of the Brazilian plantations, the U. S. can use only 57%. The rest, if coffee raisers are to thrive, must be sold in world trade, principally in Europe...
High Proof. Yale's Physiologist Yandell Henderson has his own ideas about alcoholism. Because drunkards thrive on hard liquor, always drink it straight, Dr. Henderson wants to dilute their liquor for them. He proposed high federal taxes on high-proof whiskey,* low taxes on low-proof. He even advocated that watered-down, 60 proof liquor be legalized. "Consumers of spirits," said Dr. Henderson, would probably "support the experiment" by drinking such cheap liquor. Result: fewer drunkards. Such "as would be still produced would be addicted to 60 to 70 proof instead of 80 to 100 proof. And this would...