Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While this week brought reports that General Giraud and Fighting France's General Charles de Gaulle might be able to get together, Reporter Pyle concluded: 1) the going will be "tough and probably long" before U.S. troops can move on "to bigger fronts"; 2) the French are "fundamentally behind us, but ... a strange illogical stratum is against us"; 3) "our fundamental policy still is one of soft-gloving the snakes in our midst...
Peter Marsh Stanford is no ordinary naval expert. He has been a seadog since the age of two, knows naval history backward and forward, is no mean amateur expert. He has not yet been on a ship bigger than a destroyer, but he knows the sea, "which is more important." A third-year student at Manhattan's progressive Lincoln School, he will be 16 years old come January...
...every plane in operation there is a successor in the works incorporating the knowledge gained in combat around the world. The Flying Fortress' successor will have even greater bomb capacity, fire power, range and speed. > The trend is toward ever bigger bombers. On display was a mock-up (wooden dummy) of a bomber capable of carrying far larger bombs than Britain's present four-ton blockbusters...
...machine shop on his estate, hired experienced workers, on the fourth try put a lumbering boxlike four-ton monster through its paces. With a terrible roar it clambered through mangrove swamps, crunched eight-inch trees, splashed over bayous. Donald promptly named his new machine Alligator, went to work on bigger & better models...
This year the revolution in foodstuffs has reached Connecticut. Where the Boston Post Road sweeps up over a hill into Greenwich, tablet foods are clacking out of packaging machines in what was once a huge, swank automobile salesroom. There are vestpocket portions of carrots, cabbage and coffee hardly bigger than a book of matches. There are blocks of onions smaller than a shoebox which will cook up to serve a hundred men. Maker of these tablets, the first commercial producer of dehydrated compressed foods in the U.S., is Auto Ordnance Co., manufacturer as well of the famed Thompson submachine...