Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They Got Me Covered," Robert is lecherous, cowardly, boastful, screw-whacky, and undoubtedly the worst reporter that ever pounded Dorothy Lamour's typewriter. He had special tips on Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Quisling-but for got to cable "Amalgamated Press" about it because he was snooping for bigger new. When the picture opens, Germany has just invaded Russia, and Hope is the only foreign correspondent who missed the scoop. He sent back word that it was all a nasty rumor. Amalgamated recalls him: fires him; and he spends the remaining reels exposing a nest of Gestapo agents in our nation...
...fast reason: Government buyers are snapping up canned goods as if they expected every canner to close shop tomorrow. Last year the Government bought 75,000,000 cases of canned fruits and vegetables, a walloping 31% of the biggest pack on record. This year's buying schedules are bigger still-140,000,000 cases, over one-half the total pack...
...partial compromise is in the making. The Maritime Commission now has in the works a new and bigger Liberty with a better reciprocating engine-which, however, cannot go into production until 1944. Possibly the present program of 200 C-type per year can be stepped up. But chances are that at war's end the U.S. will have to tie up and scrap many hundreds of merchantmen and start afresh, just as she did after World War I with the old Hog-Islanders. By that time the chances also are that the U.S. will want a far smaller (though...
...manpower and inflation fronts. The Army's steady and inexorable drain on the nation's manpower was now fully apparent (see p. 59). Labor, particularly in the person of John L. Lewis, was getting set to blow the Little Steel formula sky high with demands for bigger wages. Yet U.S. labor was working on the average of only 44 hours a week in all U.S. industry-an appalling waste of manpower in a nation...
...according to figures released by the Department of Commerce, the U.S. exported some $7.8 billions of goods while importing only $2.7 billions. The exports, representing around 70% Lend-Lease shipments of food and munitions, were bigger than in 1917 (see chart) but somewhat smaller than in 1919 and 1920, when the U.S. exported a record $7.9 and $8.2 billions...