Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago the President remedied his first omission by asking Congress for $800,000,000 with which to build a bigger Navy. Last week, he remedied the second. To Speaker of the House William Bankhead, the President wrote...
Most cogent of a string of other objectors to a bigger U. S. Navy was eminent Historian Charles A. Beard whose thesis was the eminently simple one that the only possible excuse for giving the Navy $800,000,000 was to implement the President's desire to "quarantine" aggressor nations; that such a quarantine would mean "aggressive warfare in the far Pacific or the far Atlantic"; and that if, on the contrary, "Congress intends to provide defense for the American domain of interest in this hemisphere, it should make corresponding alterations in the President's program." Historian Beard...
...what the public wants and what it ought to get may be two different things. Last week in two important cinema centres the double feature was getting a thorough going over, to determine 1) whether the public really prefers the double bill, and 2) whether its eyes are not bigger than its stomach...
Coach Fred Mitchell should have a stronger mound staff this season than last year. Ed Ingalls, first Varsity hurler for two years, will return for his last season and is expected to be an even bigger winner for the Crimson nine...
Exploring a "strange, half-lighted world," FORTUNE found that the contraceptive industry was one "with an enormous social responsibility" which "on the whole" it failed to meet. FORTUNE discovered that the contraceptive business amounts to $250,000,000 a year, which is "slightly bigger than the barbershop business and very slightly smaller than the jewelry business." Only $38,000,000 is spent for simple male equipment, the rest for women's. Manufacturing and retail markups ranged from 120% to 300%. "No product is very satisfactory," found FORTUNE, and "the only method yielding even a semblance of certainty was that...