Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gave an elementary lecture on modern art. There were two pages in four colors, several pages of photographs in the modern manner, eight pages of illustrations in blue ink. All was put together with a finish and flair worthy of a national publication, to make a magazine worthy of bigger & better Chicago...
...testify with immunity (TIME, Aug. 17). The whole future course of the investigation depended upon broadening the committee's authority to get information under threat of contempt action. Therefore last week the committee petitioned Governor Roosevelt to summon a special session of the Legislature to pass a bigger & better immunity bill for its use. Within 24 hours the Governor as a matter of "clear duty" issued the call for this week...
...Atlas Utilities Corp., investment trust headed by astute Floyd Bostwick Odium, 39, set Wall Street talking by its sudden acquisition of $9,000,000 Ungerleider Financial Corp. and $20,000,000 Sterling Securities Corp. (TIME, Aug. 17). Last week Atlas made its twelfth purchase since June last year, one bigger than any of the others. This buy was control of Chatham Phenix Allied Corp., formed in September 1929, by the securities affiliate of $326,000,000-in- resources Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Co., Manhattan...
...little girl who has managed to insinuate herself into a bigger children's game is discovered and sent to bed by her parents, dismays them by her despair...
...Socony-Vacuum consummation revived talk of another, much bigger merger of old Standard units: Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) and Standard of California. Such a merger would span the continent, would bring together $2,381,289,000 in assets, would create by far the biggest oil company in the world. It would give an outlet to California's tremendous crude production (including half of the Kettleman Hills field) through the extensive marketing system which New Jersey has built up in the central and south Atlantic states, in Europe and Latin America...