Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present crisis in world affairs is also a crisis in journalism. Fundamentally and at bottom the reason why the modern dictatorships are unspeakable is not merely because of their murders and their concentration camps. Men can fight that kind of tyranny. The bigger reason why the modern dictatorships are unspeakable is that they corrupt the mind from within. They suppress the truth. They lead men by lies and fraud to desire and acquiesce in their own enslavement. And how is this corruption brought about? By the destruction of journalism...
...public was only given to understand that somehow the regular Department of Agriculture appropriation had got hung up in Congress, but something far bigger than that was going on. At stake was the success of the nation's entire wartime food program, not to mention the possibility of entirely unnecessary and artificial inflation of food prices. At stake for a relatively few top-drawer U.S. farmers were several hundred million dollars of velvet...
...problem is: What can be had in a hurry for the 1942 emergency? The prospect: stepped-up production of proved types (Commandos, DC-3s, 25-ton Douglas DC-4s) while engineers work on bigger & better air freighters for 1943 and later...
Bechtel & McCone like such back-patting, but they have bigger goals ahead. In the first six months of 1942, the U.S. built 228 ships and admitted 332 sinkings. So Bechtel & McCone are talking of more work, more expansion, faster production. They have plenty to work on: Calship has a backlog of 224 Liberty ships (worth about $350,000,000), almost seven times the 35 vessels the yard has delivered to date...
...Stock Exchange on reforms in line with SEC notions of how an exchange should be run-notably on promptly publicizing and summarily punishing violators of Exchange rules (including a former Curb governor). The Curb also took the lead in buying in Exchange memberships, to give the remaining members a bigger share of what business was left. Already 50 seats (10% of total membership) have been bought out and retired...