Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woman on earth ever made more or bigger headlines than Wallis Warfield Simpson. Known to practically no one when 1936 began, to practically everyone when it ended, she fulfilled TIME'S prime criterion for the news-character most indelibly identified with the past year. Not with the quality but with the calibre of Mrs. Simpson's achievements is TIME concerned...
...Collar Co. and Illinois Central Railroad. The company, which makes horse collars and harness with convict labor at Kentucky's Eddyville penitentiary, was seeking legal authority to make the railroad accept 25 shipments of horse collars & harness which it had refused. But the issue at stake was far bigger than it looked. The railroad's refusal was based on the Ashurst-Sumners Act, passed in 1935, forbidding the shipment of convict-made goods into states which forbid its sale...
...looks like she has made a bigger catch than Lou Gehrig ever will...
...indoors without importing it at prohibitive expense until one day, passing a Boston fish store, he noticed a handsome cod packed in ice that was chopped up so fine it looked like corn snow. The fish dealer's iceman showed him his ice-grinding machine. Walter Brown ordered bigger copies that would grind ice smaller. Last week it took 500 tons of ice fed through grinders to keep the floor and ski slide snowy. During performances of the show, spectators were spellbound when workmen fed one of the machines 50-lb. chunks of ice, which it chewed into flakes...
Last week in Los Angeles a bigger & better merger brought a smarter oilman than Tom Slick triumphantly into the news. After five years of patient maneuvering, poker-faced Harry Ford Sinclair had got what he wanted in California- a major oil distributing system in that State. He got it by agreeing to share it with silver-bearded Chairman Henry Latham Doherty of Cities Service Co., just as he got his great holding company, Consolidated Oil Corp., on shares with the Rockefellers in 1932. Oilman Sinclair's triumph was the acquisition of working control of Richfield...