Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...countries showed that a nation is most warlike in periods of territorial expansion and economic power, that when a nation is "great" it makes war. Holland, the chartmakers pointed out, long stagnant while other countries scrabbled for land & trade, has doggedly refused to fight since 1833. They concluded that bigger & worse wars are in store, that those who believe otherwise are believers in miracles...
...Because banks, for the temporary guarantee, are assessed only on the portion of their deposits insured,* the big banks with big accounts in many cases paid less into the guarantee fund than small banks with small accounts. Not all banks announced the amount paid. Some of the bigger payments...
...Coolidge times the businessmen who went to the Chamber of Commerce Building in Washington were bigger. The 150 businessmen who visited it in a body last week were piddling small. They did not come of their, own volition. They came on peremptory summons from the NRA for violating in their many little dry-cleaning shops throughout the land their miniscule but racket-infested industry's minimum price agreement (65? to 95? for cleaning a suit or dress...
...York manager has been able to sell a substantial number of dates; and the local managers have been able to sell a sufficient number of seats to make them want to buy again. Artists' fees are lower this year with a few exceptions. So are seats. Bookings are bigger than the New York managers expected. Lily Pons had to turn down 40 dates. Lawrence Tibbett has 51; Kreisler and Rachmaninoff, 33 each; Yehudi Menuhin, 28 (all his parents will let him play); Heifetz, 26, Zimbalist, Harold Bauer and Gabrilowitsch, expert musicians whose box-office power has never been sensational...
Gene Vidal (pronounced Vee-dahl) would not have traded places with Col. Young or anyone else. As head man of U. S. civil aviation in the New Deal his job was far bigger than that of either of his predecessors. Although his budget was slashed this year from $7,660,000 to $5,172,000, and his own salary cut to $8,000, Gene Vidal had a pot of new gold handy in the form of Public Works Administration money. Never before had civil aeronautics a chance to receive so many millions for subsidy. Not since 1929 had the industry...