Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total borrowing allowance for rearmament from $2,000,000,000 to $4,000,000,000. (Of this year's contemplated armament appropriation, $1,150,000,000 will be paid for by taxation, $1,750,000,000 by borrowing. Probably no higher British income taxes will be imposed.) Bigger borrowing won 432-to-5, the five dissenters being confirmed pacifists...
Such actual plant traps as these have probably inspired the tall tales told by imaginative travelers about others much bigger and much more dreadful. Miss Prior, who dismisses them all as fables, quotes a Dr. Carl Liche who claimed to have seen a woman sacrificed, with horrid ceremony, to a "man-eating tree" in Madagascar. A sojourner in Brazil said he saw a tree which attracted monkeys by means of a peculiar odor, hemmed them in a prison of leaves, dropped their bare bones after three days. Centuries ago a very tall tale popped up about a gigantic Death Flower...
Thus the strike had set up a perfect laboratory in which to test the most cherished and vital belief of all U. S. newspaper publishers: that local business cannot get along without them. Alarming result: it has gotten along quite well. In December, for instance, the bigger stores reported business up 6% over 1937; in January and February it was down 7% to 9% from 1938, about the same as in big-advertising New York City. At the same time merchants have saved up to 50% on their promotion and advertising budgets...
Most military photographs that cross the sea from Germany represent death-dealers-heavier bombs, bigger Berthas, faster Heinkels. Most military pictures that cross from France and Britain represent life-savers-slicker gas masks, thicker walls, deeper holes. Last week, straight from a Hounslow, Middlesex, firm with the reassuring name of Concrete, Ltd., came some examples of British ARP (Air Raid Precautions) art which would gladden the heart of any wisely defensive ostrich...
...slot machine to keep from trying it again. The Manhattan publishing firm of Farrar & Rinehart hit the public jackpot hard with the first of the 1,000-page historickal-romantickal novels, Anthony Adverse. After five years of wistful abstinence (particularly trying because meanwhile Macmillan hit an even bigger pot with Gone...