Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liberals, with little to lose, scornfully rejected the "caretaker coalition" proposition. Labor, with a bigger stake in the Government, wanted to think it over first. But time was short: clearly the Conservatives were bent on the earliest possible Win-with-Winnie campaign...
...President, they were great friends. They had had a good time together in Washington last July, and it was only a matter of schedule that he had not got to France last month. The differences between himself and the General, the President added with a gesture, were no bigger than a fingernail...
...request, from a nation which has never had much foreign trade, for a long-term credit bigger than the U.S. budget was in any peacetime year before 1935, a loan in which the U.S. would risk a bigger sum to expand foreign trade with a single country than the New Deal ever put out in one year to prime the pump at home...
...such credits, particularly in the case of Russia, raise even bigger questions. For Russia is reported to be seeking a long-term postwar credit of no less than $7 billion...
...lasts, the Government will buy all of Puget Sound's output, but thereafter the mill will have to compete in a civilian market against the vast flow of more cheaply produced grain and molasses alcohol; 2) the ever-thirsty U.S. is rushing completion of a bigger, $2,000,000 alcohol plant for the potent Willamette Wood Chemical Co. of Springfield...