Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handbags were discouraging. Even in the bigger stores, like Selfridge's, Harrod's or Debenham & Freebody's, purses were made of imitation leather with no linings (price: anywhere from $8 to $20). Definitely inferior pocketbooks could be found from $3. Leather or reptile skin purses were priced from $40 to $60, and even the selection was meager in the extreme...
...Francisco power scale, there was a drop from the U.S. and Russia to Britain; a bigger one to France and China; another to Canada, Australia and the other Middle Powers, and then an enormous drop from them to some 30 small states-the majority. These had scarcely any power, individually or collectively. The discrepancy was so great that the classic House-Senate compromise at Philadelphia offered no solution for the Big v. Little issue in world organization...
...mile-Iong river pour out of the Szechwan basin and Tibetan foothills onto the flat paddies of China's rice bowl. Then as now, the enormous power of the Yangtze ran wild in floodtime while the Chinese shrugged ia resignation. Even now, damming the Yangtze is a bigger job than China can cope with...
...Will Be First? The small number of cars in sight for 1945 dulled the competitive urge among automen to be first. The market was so much bigger than expected production that the exact date of production would not affect the prospect of sales. But some manufacturers were better prepared than others to swing into peacetime work...
...Trade. The National Association of Manufacturers, consistently opposed to tariff reductions that would allow foreign goods to enter the U.S. market, plumped for bigger exports. NAMer Frank L. Hopkinson told a Senate subcommittee on foreign trade that high-grade American salesmen "trained in smelling out a market" should be added to the diplomatic corps...