Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon there were quite a few small boats: some mere chips on the waves, with three or four rowing men, some bigger ones, holding a dozen men and driven by leg-o'-mutton sails. In the boats there were fugitives bearing weapons, water cans, cans of rations, automobile inner tubes as sea insurance. The destroyer paused and picked up the fugitives. Then she went on with her not-too-difficult job of tidying up the sea, like a lawn-keeper in a park spiking bits of blowaway paper on a stick...
...singing in a movie theater with Walter Winchell; at eleven he was part of Gus Edwards' kid troupe; as an adolescent he teamed with Eddie Cantor, his lifelong friend and butt. A big laugh-getter in his early 20s, in his late 20s he proved an even bigger tear-jerker in The Jazz Singer. His biggest success since then came this season on Broadway in Show Time...
...Frederick Lascoff. who succeeds his father, is his spit and image, but bigger...
...that will be needed to increase air freight tenfold, or a thousandfold, when peace comes, are more and bigger planes and an understanding among nations. Aviation can guarantee the planes. Some of them, like Consolidated's new 400-passenger transport, are on the drafting boards. The tremendous rest is up to the world's statesmen...
...year's end ATC men expect that 95% of their craft will be planes built for freight hauling. They will have to look farther for the bigger, longer-range craft that aviation must have for the postwar world...