Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyes straight on the Axis powers, with whom the U.S. was then at peace, he had told the House Naval Affairs Committee: "In defending our territory in war, we cannot assume an attitude of passive defense." A year later he told Congress bluntly that the best reason for building bigger battleships was that other nations were building them. He long ago saw the inevitability of another...
Arthur Bell, who claims the supernatural quality of agility (i.e., of being able to transport himself anywhere in an instant by an act of his own will), was not stopped. While his attorneys appealed his conviction, he planned a bigger enterprise - Christ's Church of the Golden Rule...
...fouled up the peace news? At bars where newsmen gather, pinning the blame will be a soul-searching pastime for years to come. But that miscarriage of news and the possibilities of similar miscarriages posed a bigger problem than the morals of the Associated Press's Ed-ward Kennedy, whose "scoop" went sour...
...Freights. The mountains of westbound scheduled freight for war theaters are a bigger problem than troop movements When the monthly traffic over the western railroads shoots from the present 148,000 cars to 173,000, each of the seven railroads that snake their way through the Rocky Mountains will be loaded to capacity. A hot box, or a derailment on a single track grade up from the Great Plains, will call for fast rerouting of freight flowing through the rail-terminal bottlenecks at Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans...
Others could do the headquarters reporting, but his kind of copy, the artfully simple "hometown name-&-address stuff" about U.S. fighting men, compelled him to be up front. "War to an individual is hardly ever bigger than a hundred yards on each side of him," Pyle wrote. That 200 yards was his beat. In articles home to 393 daily and 297 weekly newspapers (total daily circulation: 13,390,144) Ernie Pyle covered that 200-yard view, its terrors, fatigues, laughs and heroism, more vividly and more simply than any other U.S. reporter. After 29 months of it, he wrote from...