Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jerky year for business. Despite the lack of new irons, toasters, and washing machines, household use of electricity went up 9%. Life insurance ownership ran to an all-time high of $154,600,000,000. Chicago's cattle supply was bigger than it had been since 1929, but hog deliveries were the lowest since 1872. Sale of snuff rose to a record 44,000,000 Ibs. At year's end 175,000 striking General Motors production workers had suffered an estimated wage loss...
...same way, Bob Gross took on the job of building the Constellation. Howard Hughes and T.W.A. President Jack Frye wanted a transport plane which would fly farther, faster and carry a bigger load than anything in the air. When Consolidated Aircraft turned down the job, Lockheed accepted it. Then the Army ordered Lockheed to build it for the Air Forces; T.W.A. would have to wait. Thus, when the Army canceled its contracts after V-J day, Lockheed had the plane ready for the airlines...
Within a few months, daily uranium output was stepped up from eight ounces to more than 500 lbs., and the cost dropped from $1,000 a lb. to $22. By 1943, bigger & better production methods were ready to take over, and Drs. Rentschler & Harden were able to quit their little makeshift. But in the emergency, they had supplied more than the asked-for three tons of pure uranium, for the first atomic pile...
Soon to be released from service, the C.O.s plan to expand their wartime program into a permanent organization. The Attendant is being replaced this month with a bigger publication, the Psychiatric Aid. With funds supplied largely by Friends, Mennonites, and Brethren, a full-time staff of eleven C.O.s will also publish handbooks for attendants and campaign for training courses in all mental hospitals...
Playing Tigers. As Englishmen entered into "the last decade of their grandeur," Artist Ryder, with no faith to cling to, desperately sought to recapture his artistic vitality by painting in the Latin American jungles. Result: he became a bigger social success. "Mr. Ryder," the best critics agreed (in one of Waugh's inimitable parodies of claptrap), "rises like a young trout to the hypodermic injection of a new culture . . . focussing the frankly traditional battery of his elegance and erudition on the maelstrom of barbarism. . . . Mr. Ryder has. found himself." But Anthony Blanche could not be fooled...