Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Ford," he rumbled, "may believe that he is the biggest industrialist in America; he may believe that his will is superior to the will of his employes; he may believe that he is bigger than the United Automobile Workers; he may believe that he is bigger than the Congress of the United States when he refuses to abide by the Wagner Act enacted by the Congress; he may believe all these things, but if he does he is going to be a tired old man pretty soon...
With a spanking breeze on the quarter the two ships might have expected to scud down to their destination in three or four days. The bigger of the two, the 168-ft. Seven Seas, once had a speed of 18 knots entered in her log (five knots better than the best time of the sloop-rigged America's Cup-winning Ranger). But the breeze last week was light and from the south, too close for the three-masters to lay a straight course. It seemed likely that the race might last a fortnight...
Five months ago Glenn L. Martin, who is anything but friendly to Pan American Airways since they bought only three of his Clippers, suddenly announced that his booming plant at Baltimore would build a still bigger flying boat for an unnamed company being organized to fly the Atlantic. Who, air men wondered, would have the temerity to challenge Pan American on the Atlantic? Transcontinental & Western Air? Royal Dutch Air Lines (K. L. M.)? Onetime Director of Air Commerce Eugene Vidal and friends? Last week the ambitious newcomer was finally revealed: American Export Lines, which operates 18 ships to the Mediterranean...
American Export Lines is a sturdy little concern whose sturdy little boats (none bigger than 9,350 tons) carry about a third of the freight (not including grain) between the U. S. and the Mediterranean. This is the second richest trade route in the North Atlantic, and American Export has no U. S. competitors for it. Hence it is in a better position than many other U. S. lines, made $643.000 last year with the aid of a Government subsidy of $1,479,000. Said Lawyer Kenneth Gardner who pleaded for the new airline before the House Post Office Committee...
...Chinese customers, guided by the Confucian maxim that "fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue," merely figured the more elegant the packet, the cheaper the price, the shoddier the quality. Drugs, another leading gold mine for western civilization's advertisers, were an even bigger flop than cigarets. "The total consumption of foreign pills," says Crow, "probably does not average much more than one pill per annum per person." Yet curiously enough reliable insurance companies call the Chinese as good risks as English or Americans...