Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rooting CWA permanently in his program. At the present rate of expenditure CWA would cost $2,000,000,000 a year, enough to wreck even his open-handed plans of U. S. financing. More over the free spending which made CWA so popular was bound to result in bigger scandals of the kind of which he was already getting his first sour taste...
...generation it has been the gilded dream of Midwest farmers and manufacturers that some day bigger, better boats would carry their goods down the Lakes, down the St. Lawrence, and across the sea. Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt both pledged themselves to the development of a Lakes-to-Atlantic Waterway. Last week President Roosevelt moved to redeem his pledge by urging the Senate to ratify the ''so-called St. Lawrence Treaty" with Canada which President Hoover after long delay had wangled through to the signing stage...
...singer had been an Italian tenor who had spent his last nickel on the claque, the ovation could not have been bigger than the one which swept Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week after the first-act curtain of Die Walküre. The singer was Soprano Lotte Lehmann, a tall, stately German making her Metropolitan debut with a name already important in Europe and Chicago (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930 et seq.). Last week she was nervous. Her husband. Herr Otto Krause who left his insurance business in Vienna to hear the performance, knew it. The battered...
...third possibility, unanswered last week, would have been bigger news: was Banker Bailie, like four of his predecessors in the Treasury, unable to stomach the President's fiscal policies...
...General Motors (TIME, Oct. 23) were evidence of the internal struggles of that company to improve its position. William Knudsen, new executive vice president in charge of operations, who previously was Chevrolet's big push, is now putting his shoulder to the whole company for a still bigger push. Ford also has changed its ways. Ford has lost ground in recent years because it persisted in making cars to the exclusion of ringing Ford bells in the public consciousness. Two months ago however Henry Ford did the unprecedented by taking a magazine (FORTUNE) into his plant and telling about...