Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...received your letter thanking me for my suggestion about making TIME'S covers bigger. Actually, I was just kidding, but maybe my sense of humor didn't show itself. I have really started on the job of papering my wall with TIME'S men-of-the-week, and it is turning out to be a swell job. To show you how it looks, I am sending you a picture with my best regards...
...overland "assault" across New Guinea's mountains consisted of a handful of troops, as the Australians found when they chased them back over the steep peaks and through the steaming jungles. In all New Guinea, which is bigger than Texas, it is estimated that there are not more than 20,000 Japs. General MacArthur has enough men to retake New Guinea, but offensives risk ships and the prize may not be worth the cost...
...only thing bigger than the troops' appreciation of entertainment, says Bob, was their morale. He illustrated with the case of an Alaska private he had known in Los Angeles. The general arranged for them to meet in his office. "My friend walked into the general's headquarters," said Bob, "and before he even saluted he stooped down and felt one of the few rugs in Alaska, and said: 'Gee! a rug.' Then he straightened up and said, 'Hello, General.' " In Alaska, declared Hope, superbly disciplined privates and respected generals "all live the same life...
Although the Chinese thought they should be getting a lot more help from their allies, they gave Wendell Willkie the biggest reception yet. It was bigger than Jawaharlal Nehru got in 1939, than Lauchlin Currie got in 1941. Even the Japanese contributed: Japanese scouting planes, looking for Willkie, nosed toward Chungking for three days running, but ran into fog before they reached the capital...
Main reason last week's cut was limited to New York and Chicago is that the war effort is siphoning money out of those two cities and pouring it into other districts which received a bigger share of defense contracts...