Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...television film-producing units here, with their immense potentialities for factual and instructional production on film (much of which will become available for those 35,000 nontheatrical projectors which you mention), but the huge backlogs of orders on the books of the manufacturers of 16-millimeter projectors, indicate bigger and happier minnie-movie audiences in the home, church, club group, recreation hall and other 16-millimeter stands, not by any means overlooking the classroom...
Chet Bowles, hoping to bring things to a head, laid his resignation on the President's desk. Harry Truman had to face it. Reports were that he decided to cut Snyder down a little, lift Bowles to a bigger, better job, settle the steel strike with a price increase of around $5 a ton, give Bowles full authority to hold the line in the future. Another report: Paul Porter, the towering (6 ft. 4 in.) and genial Kentuckian who is now chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, would succeed Chet Bowles as administrator...
...mild-mannered, snood-eyed Melvin Jerome Blanc (pronounced blank) has more job offers than he can fill. He has ducked proposals for a show of his own, prefers to pocket the $2,000 a week he gets from making the big stars a little bigger. That way, he says, he can spend his free time fishing, eating eclairs and running a hardware store in Los Angeles County. Reading his fan mail over Jack Benny's shoulder doesn't bother...
...built a practical radio as small as a wristwatch.* But last week, a National Bureau of Standards physicist announced that scientists had come close. A tiny new "skeleton" set, no bigger than a pack of cigarets, could be hidden in the palm of one hand, said...
...engine will use only a small part of Jahco's 1,000,000 square feet of factory space. So Bill Jack is also planning to turn out ball bearings, electronic devices, aircraft starters, many other items. Said Bill Jack: "I can't see anything but a bigger prosperity than we ever had in war times...