Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bigger the individual income, the bigger the percentage of that income likely to be derived from tax-exempt securities. Tax-exempt interest accounted for less than 2% of the incomes of $5,000 to $10,000, 10.2% of incomes over...
Since the death last year of Dexter Fellows, circus pressagent extraordinary and perennial, the literature of the circus has seemed as subdued as mourning. With Big Show, the first novel of a circus-loving staff member of The New Yorker, the circus goes to town in bigger & better literary spangles than ever. A three-ring romance presenting a tender love story, an engaging dog story and authentic circus life, Big Show shares with Dexter Fellows' ballyhoo the distinction of being frequently livelier than the circus itself...
...difficulty of substratosphere flying is that in the thin upper air a propeller blade has to take bigger or more frequent bites of air to maintain the ship's speed and altitude. By increasing the pitch of propeller blades bigger bites are possible, but wind-tunnel experiments have indicated that any propeller's effectiveness reaches a limit when the speed of its blade tips surpasses the speed of sound (at sea level, 780 m.p.h.; at 20,000 ft., 500 m.p.h.). When propeller tips reach the speed of sound, they find themselves in a sort of dead heat with...
...many Southern Democrats, it was strong medicine when in 1932 Franklin Roosevelt wooed the Northern Black Belt as no Democrat had done in mortal memory. When he gave Negroes prominent seats at his inauguration, put them in bigger jobs than they ever held in a Democratic administration, Southern Democrats tried hard to swallow it as political expediency. Such demagogues as Georgia's Eugene Talmadge gagged for public edification when, during the 1936 campaign, Mrs. Roosevelt was photographed between two young Negro officers of the R.O.T.C. at Washington's Howard University. But in this year's primary fight...
Last week's financing was $200,000,000 bigger than Wall Street had expected, but, unlike certain industrial issues (see col. 3), was gobbled by investors, being oversubscribed some ten times. (C. J. Devine & Co. opened quotations on the bonds at 101 11/32 to 13/32.) Bringing the public debt to an all-time high of $38,328,000,000 and the Treasury's cash balance to a phenomenal total of some $2,300,000,000 (Secretary Morgenthau wants to be ready for any event in the U. S. or Europe),† the new money is to help finance...