Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they built or bought all last year, and Westinghouse is once more in the black. Last week it looked as if Westinghouse would stay in the black for at least a decade. The American Railway Association, as one of its last acts before it was formally absorbed by the bigger & better Association of American Railroads, announced that 80% of its members had voted to equip their old freight rolling stock with new Westinghouse brakes already required by the Association on new equipment. Binding on all members, the vote called for completion of the changeover within ten years. Westinghouse not only...
...DARING YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE-William Saroyan-Random House ($2.50). Last week a new writer appeared on the U. S. horizon. Not much bigger at first sight than a man's hand, this portent promised a change of weather to come, perhaps even a cyclone. All that had happened was a book of 26 "stories" by one William Saroyan, 26-year-old U. S.-Armenian. But readers of The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze opened their eyes at his Preface: "A writer can have ultimately, one of two styles: he can write in a manner...
...several hours the crowd had listened to denunciations of Jews, liberals and radicals; it had heard promises of bigger and better meetings along this line; it had gazed at, read and reread a huge banner in the front of the hall which bore the inscription "German People in America! Awake!" It had feasted itself into a stupor on Hitler's gospel of hate, on the message of the most reactionary, finance-dominated regime in history...
...Meanwhile, too, air services were speeded up; a new Sunday magazine of millions of circulation was evolved, with technical science yielding the spotlight to the science of concerted competition; and, bigger than all the others, Low Cost Housing was a goal which hundreds of architectural, plumbing, electrical, refrigerating and elevator engineers, to say nothing of financiers and sociologists, continued last week to believe was almost in sight...
Procter & Gamble may be many years the junior of Colgate but its profits are bigger, more consistent. Its peak year, curiously, was 1931 when it rolled up a profit of $22,600,000. Even last year it made $14,000,000. Until last spring P. & G. was always headed by a descendant of one of the two Cincinnati founders, with the Procters generally in the ascendency. But Chairman William Cooper Procter died childless and the management is now in the hands of Richard Redwood Deupree, a conservative steeped in good Procter paternalism...