Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...results: 1) a bigger national vote than was expected; 2) a tremendous strengthening of labor's political power in the states as well as in Washington; 3) a new No. 1 labor politician with more prestige than failing John L. Lewis ever...
Although the U.S. had a bigger supply of raw wool than ever before, retail inventories of woolen goods ran low. Civilians hoped for a warm winter. With 10% fewer mill workers than last year, woolen production for the first quarter of 1945 may not exceed 90,000,000 yards, of which 60,000,000 yards are needed to fill Army, UNRRA and other Government orders...
Later Joy and Cervo spotted more Germans in a hedge. "I shouted 'Oop mop' and out came Jerries. . . . When we finished clearing up the hedge, we saw more and bigger foxholes, some of them with mortars. We made the Jerries bring out their weapons and pile them, until we had 49 Jerries. . . . [The prisoners] glared at us and I glared back and shouted 'Mop oop!' and we brought back our souvenirs...
...accent what was already its proudest Navy Day, the world's most colossal Navy last week told some colossal facts about its most colossal ships: the 45,000-ton Iowa and her sister battleships are the mightiest and fastest in the world, bigger by 5,000 tons than Britain's Lion, faster than Germany's 42,000-ton Tirpitz...
...vital rubber city of Akron last week was beating off a streamlined version of the old labor-pirating racket. Swamped with war orders and short of skilled workers, 20 small, back-alley machine shops had hijacked machinists from bigger war plants. Their system was simple: each would hire someone else's skilled worker away as a "private contractor," let him "bid" on each job he turned out and "rent" the machine he worked on. Technically, this wile put the worker in business for himself. Thus the worker who changed jobs needed no WMC statement of availability, and by "bidding...