Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Waitresses are actually quitting their jobs, says John W. Mason, Continental Hotel headwaiter, because poor tipping makes war jobs look bigger and bigger, but even during the pourboire drought, Harvard men are always good tipsters. At least when they come to the Continental...
Churchill had put his emphasis upon "Empire," the Home Secretary put his upon "the Commonwealth," and the difference was bigger than it seemed. The Home Secretary also held out two prospects for the colonies: 1) eventual self-government; 2) greater attention to the development of colonial economic welfare...
...decided to get a few machine-made orders. The first job was making plungers for ammunition hoists. Then General Mills got a prism order, ran it off in record time by perfecting a device to grind 54 prisms simultaneously. With this greyhound start, the company decided to bid on bigger & tougher things...
...example of how U.S. tax laws sometimes encourage bigger & bigger mergers-at the very time when the Government is trying to preserve a competitive economy -Great American is nonetheless a husky warbaby. Its Rubatex division is full of Army-Navy orders for electrical insulation, rubber aircraft parts, etc.; Connecticut Telephone is producing much field equipment used by the Russians; Ward La France is producing giant rescue trucks for the Army. Result: since 1939 the combination's sales have skyrocketed twentyfold to over $25,000,000, profits have jumped tenfold to over $600,000. Come peace, Stanley Odium (who will...
...More and bigger bombers will undoubtedly multiply the force of air assault from Britain. But, within its limitations to date, the air offensive on German Europe has not been decisive. Rightly or wrongly, the men directing Allied strategy assume that air attack never can be conclusive, that the telling blow from Britain, as well as from Africa, must be delivered by land...