Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Roosevelt continued blissfully deaf, dumb & blind about his candidacy. When his friends urged him to get openly into the fight and switch to national issues, he declared publicly: "I'm too busy right here as Governor to give any thought to anything else. This job is getting bigger all the time." However he did pause long enough to assure itinerant United Pressman Raymond Clapper that business would have nothing to fear from Democratic rule at the White House...
...proposing to immunize food ships in war time, President Hoover exhibits an "abysmal ignorance" of naval usage. By blockading an enemy's food supply, wars are curtailed and blood conserved. A free flow of food would make for "bigger and bloodier wars...
...Graaff turned up the lights and smiled into a circle of marveling faces. A few nights later he was to demonstrate his $90 lightning to the American Institute of Physics in Manhattan. After that he was to build a bigger, 10,000,000-volt model of his ribbon-&-copperball generator at M. I. T. He believes 50,000,000 volts may be possible...
...company its patents on canning and canning machinery, will receive royalties in future. Prior to the arrangement, Continental disposed of its stock interest in Compagnie Franco-Con-tinentale de Boites Metalliques, acquired last year. In England, Continental has a minority interest in Metal Box Co., Ltd. Continental's bigger rival, American Can Co., has a substantial interest in British Can Co. Ltd., maker of 25% of the tin -cans in the British Isles. The smaller part of Continental's output (30%) is in "general line cans" used for drugs, oils, paints and tobacco. Greater part of American...
...Ability to read 8-point type (like ordinary newsprint) at 14 in. distance. Bigger numbers indicate weaker sight...