Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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California Democrats sighed with relief. For weeks, party leaders had been trying to nudge State Attorney General Robert Walker Kenny into running against Republican Governor Earl Warren. For weeks Kenny had shied-he had his eye on bigger things, and the governor's mansion had been a political dead end for many a California politician. But last week, with some misgivings, he announced his candidacy...
...first time in four years, the U.S. had taken in more in a month than it had spent, by a round $168,000,000. Those who have been watching the way federal spending has dropped, and tax payments stayed up, guessed that the U.S. may get an even bigger surprise. The surprise: the federal budget may be balanced in the fiscal year starting July...
...Uncle Morris became chairman, smartly realized that many a big manufacturer would be flooded with orders, that goods would be short. So he sent his buyers scouting the nation for new small supplies, loaded his shelves with scarce goods. Result: Rich's tripled its business, passed onetime bigger stores which had been caught short...
...summer a double-handful of Iowa State graduate students and undergraduate specialists will move into a spacious colonial mansion in Antigua. The Guatemalans have offered free use of the necessary land. If the planned cross-breeding experiments work out, both Iowa and Guatemala may soon have better, if not bigger corn...
...consciousness that Bob, tireless, devoted and efficient, was patiently pioneering a successful farm out of some fallen buildings and overgrown fields. He became one of the best chicken farmers in the countryside, and after two years was making so much profit that he could think of buying a bigger & better farm...