Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does every time he visits the U. S., bluff old Dr. Eckener assured newsmen they would see transatlantic airship service as soon as U. S. bankers round up enough money. In Friedrichshafen the LZ-129 bigger than the Macon and twice as big as the Graf Zeppelin, has its skeleton nearly complete. In Akron the designing staff of Goodyear-Zeppelin is working on plans for a similar commercial ship to be built there and operated alternately with LZ-129 But bankers and builders know that no service will start without assurance of substantial U. S. mail subsidies...
...John Stockholder could still afford to clap his hands as he saw other companies show deficits reduced, deficits turned into profits, and profits turned into bigger profits for the first nine months of 1933. Even the few companies whose nine-month profits were smaller than a year ago showed growing earnings for the last three months. Some reports to John Stockholder...
Four days later he had Mr. Wiggin back on the witness stand and developed facts that were bigger news to other Chase officers sitting in the Committee room than they were to the investigating Senators...
...companions of the left wing who plumped for a frontal attack and a use of force if thwarted in legislative demands. If Sir Stafford Cripps can be considered typical of present, Labour party opinion, the only slogan to which it will have any right will be "On to Bigger and Better Defeats." Only a political miracle can save the party from collapse if it breaks down before the issue once more; only a series of unexpectedly crude tactics by the Conservatives will shock the Labourites into a realization of the immensity and the necessity of their real task...
During the booming 1920's strapping, crisp-haired Charles E. Mitchell enlarged the National City Bank by mergers until, for a short time, it was bigger than the Chase. In 1930 Mr. Wiggin put an end to that by merging the Chase with Equitable Trust in which the Rockefellers were heavy stockholders. Thereafter Mr. Wiggin was no longer the Chase's biggest stockholder*-that title had passed to John D. Rockefeller Jr.-but the Rockefellers were content to leave him in command. At that time Mr. Wiggin ruled a bigger bank than any American before or since...