Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know that the U. S. Navy plans to build two 45,000-ton, 880-foot battleships. They will be 10,000 tons heavier, 130 feet longer, and better armed by three guns than any of the six battleships now being built for the U. S. Fleet. They will be bigger even than the two 42,000-tonners which Britain has laid down. And as the President explained at a press conference, Japan is reportedly building three ships of around 42,000 tons, refuses to tell other powers just what size they will be. House Appropriations subcommitteemen, however, declining...
Poland's hour of unequal struggle with the Nazi giant seemed at hand. Poland with a bigger population (34,000,000), bigger area (150,000 sq. mi.), bigger standing Army (285,000) than Czecho-Slovakia was too big a nation to let fall into Germany's hands. So fortnight ago the British Government hastily offered a watery anti-aggression pact, but the hard-boiled Polish Government insisted on strict military guarantees with no ifs, ands or buts...
...Bigger ones: Bequests of $7,000,000 from Roger Deering's estate in 1936, $8,000,000 from Milton H. Wilson...
Priests. When Lewis Brown went to work for Johns-Manville in 1927, business executives generally considered that they had only one duty-to provide their stockholders with bigger profits. Except for that, the way they ran their businesses was no one's business but their...
Celebrating his 65th birthday, Harold LeClair lakes, Secretary of the Interior and one of the hardest-working men in Washington, declared: "If a man worked hard at it he couldn't get a bigger list of enemies than...