Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rare moments when he seemed just himself ("Will you go to hell with my compliments?") the operators felt less uncomfortable. But in two weeks of negotiating, Lewis had thundered no heads-will-roll ultimatums. The operators, fearing that he might ask for bigger raises than they could balance with price rises, were almost eager to settle for the going 18½?-an-hour increase. But Lewis could not seem to bring himself to talk paychecks. Instead, he dramatized the need for a miner's "health and welfare fund," hinted that he might ask reduction of their current 54-hour...
...described the U.S. as "the power which possesses the most considerable financial and industrial means." Blum would soon find out if the U.S. was willing to use those means for its avowed aim of reviving world trade. Major French wants were a loan of $2½ billion and a bigger share of German coal production (France's present allotment: about 10%). These, argued Blum, were essential if France was to take her place as a strong nation...
Even if the transcript had the usual Nazi twists, its territorial terms were plausible. By the ideological nature of the disease, Communism feels safe only when it is the doctor. In search of such safety, Russia has annexed 273,947 square miles since 1939-an area bigger than Texas. She has placed behind the quarantine of "friendly" (i.e., dociie) Governments the nations on her borders, and now has the two chief exceptions, Iran and Turkey, under deep-sea pressure. Even Iran's oil means less to her than the reassurance a puppet regime in Teheran would give...
Ziegfeld Follies of 1946 (MGM) may not be the "biggest all-star show of all time," as its sponsors strongly hint, but it will do until a bigger one comes along. A super-spectacular, hyper-Hollywood, tnple-Technicolored variety show, it runs for almost two hours. The total impact is calculated to send cinemaddicts reeling home in a state of dizzy satisfaction...
...Slightly bigger than the Crosley, Standards have a 90-inch wheelbase, a four-cylinder, eight-horsepower engine (U.S. rating: 28 horsepower), will cruise at 50 m.p.h., get 35 to 40 miles on a gallon of gas. The Standards come in three models, "tourer," "saloon" (sedan) and "drophead coupe" (convertible coupe). Another shipment of 8 or 9 cars arrived in the U.S. last week...