Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House and Senate Bonus vote was a triumph for at least three individuals- Democratic Representative Wright Patman of Texas who started the prairie fire in Congress, National Commander Ralph O'Neil whose American Legion blew the blaze bigger, and Owen D. Young who deserted Big Business' fire-fighting squad...
...nation in the 20th Century bigger than Albania or Serbia ever turn in an abject apology on demand to another within 24 hours before...
...somewhat different manner the bigger and more serious legislative fight over Drought Relief was compromised last week by Senator Caraway's colleague. Senator Robinson of Arkansas. The day after Senator's Borah's thunderous speech last fortnight for food relief, President Hoover intimated that he might favor some sort of public aid if private charity failed (see p. 11). Shuttling back and forth for 48 hours between the White House and the Capitol went portly Senator Watson of Indiana, the Republican leader, trying to find a means of silencing Senator Borah, whom he fears, by pleasing Senator...
...between lately have been the big mergers which characterized 1928 and 1929. Last week however there was announced a deal of major significance, of major size, in a major industry. Bethlehem Steel Corp. bought McClintic-Marshall Corp., steel fabricators, for $32,000,000, thereby became a bigger competitor of U. S. Steel Corp. than ever before...
Since Jan. 1 the U. S. Golf Association's new ball-.07 oz. lighter, .06 in. bigger- has been official. Golfers who have continued to use the 1.62-oz. 1.62-in. "old" ball have been using a tool of the game as illegitimate now as the sand-wedge or the deep-scored rib-faced iron. But many a player has so continued, waiting for tournament golfers, who had to use the new ball, to give some indication of whether it really took distance off shots, was harder to control. Last week the Professional Golfers Association published a tabulation...