Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bigger "weasels." by three tons than the U.S. Army...
...present form. At the same time the Congress-which had been squinting at atomic power almost as confidently as at those Lilliputian mavericks, the budget and the tariff-suddenly admitted to itself that it did not know what to try next. The monster seemed to be getting bigger, more red-eyed and more terrifying with every passing...
Like a housewife with too many heirlooms, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art has always needed a bigger attic. Last week the museum announced details of its $10 million postwar plan to increase its 7.21 acres of floor space by about 30% (TIME, Jan. 29). If the customers can take it, they will be able to see the $1 billion conglomeration of 5,000 years of art-everything from South American bone nose flutes to priceless Raphaels and Rembrandts...
...already lifted China's Sixth Army twice, with its 25,000 men, 2,178 horses and mules, more than 1,500 tons of gear. Now it was time again to pick up the Sixth, which claims to be "the most airborne army in the world." It was a bigger job than ever: at Chikiang the Sixth had been swollen to more than 33,000 men. The Tenth Air Force's 443rd Troop Carrier Group loaded 45 to 50 of the men into each of its C-46s, flew them over central China's great blue lakes...
...dire warnings that planes could not fly 1) through Africa's dreaded dust storms, 2) at night. He did both, stringing radio beacons across thousands of miles of darkest Africa. Result: operating efficiency shot up over 300%- and the accident rate went down. Then he was handed a bigger job : running the lifeline to China over the Hump. There, as in Africa, the big reason for not flying was "weather." So Hardin drafted a curt order: "Effective immediately, there will be no more weather over the Hump...