Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Airplanes can sink battleships and the bigger the battleship the bigger the mark. Japan, England and Italy know it. Why are the American people not allowed to know...
...result was a story of espionage which made Army officials wonder whether the spies or Mr. Cummings' agents who arrested them had been the bigger bunglers...
...past month, ever since President Roosevelt demanded $800,000,000 above the regular Navy appropriation of $500,000,000, popular forums-from village stores to the U. S. Senate-have resounded with debate. Why does the U. S. need a bigger Navy? What kind of Navy should it be? Last week new verbal ammunition was discharged on the floor of Congress and in the White House...
...Laird's Birkenhead shipbuilders last week that rivets were going into plates on the top decks of Great Britain's new 33,000-ton Cunarder, largest liner ever built in England,* and costing an estimated $10,000,000. Launching is scheduled for July. Nearly 3,000 tons bigger than her famed predecessor of the same name-scrapped two years ago-the new ten-deck Mauretania is 750 ft. long and, with a speed of 22 knots from her steam turbines, will cross the Atlantic in six days. Carrying 1,250 passengers and with air-conditioned public rooms...
...materials which might yield a bigger profit today from more intense exploitation may be the very natural resources which the nation wants to conserve to give a break to the next generation so that there may be profits tomorrow...