Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accounting for the Chamber of Deputies. The same Chamber that cut Prime Minister Tardieu's majority to seven, that gave Prime Minister Steeg a majority of ten and then booted him out, suddenly softened last week toward the new Cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Laval, a man no bigger than either of his predecessors. To Prime Minister Laval the Chamber gave a handsome working majority of 54 on his first test vote, a vote that seemed to promise continuation of the Laval cabinet perhaps until after the presidential elections...
...Although France is the chief asylum of Tsarist refugees and definitely the power most hostile to Russia, still, last week, La Société Pétrofina Française signed a new, bigger-than-ever contract for Red oil to be consumed in France...
...Cuban National Lottery will be made bigger, better under a proposed law, is expected to net the Cuban treasury a profit of $10,000,000 next year. At the National Casino in Marianao, Havana, roulette (with two zeroes), Baccarat, Faro, Craps and almost every other gambling game known to man are played, are legal for both sexes. But women are not allowed to attend the better burlesque shows in Havana...
Chicago: in the first weeks the Blackhawks played phenomenally, justifying the odd theories of OWner Frederic McLaughlin who copied Knute Rockne's football tactics, sent a bigger squad into action than his rivals, got them up for calisthenics at an hour when most hockey players are sleeping. But recently two Chicago players, overtrained, have fainted in action; the team has slipped from first place to second...
...have wider and longer springs, automatic chassis lubrication. For the first time Packard is showing its own custom-made bodies. Prices: $2,385 up. Hudson worked two years on the new riveted body for its eights. All the exterior hardware has been revised. In the motor, show points are: bigger bore, labyrinthine cooling for the oil, a vibration dampener, bigger water pump. Gear-shifting is aided by a duralumin clutch-plate. Price...