Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy is going to be bigger than the combined navies of the rest of world...
...world. During 1941, his office rolled up the unprecedented figure of 20,000,000 sq. ft. of industrial construction for the national defense effort. He had set a record in building the Wright Aeronautical Corp. factory in Cincinnati. Within a year Kahn was to build a still bigger one: Henry Ford's vast, $75,000,000 Willow Run bomber plant. Willow Run's record will be broken if a still bigger Kahn job-so far in plans only-goes through: the $120,000,000 Chrysler airplane engine plant in the Chicago area...
...There exists today in the Government stockpile of wool imported from Australia and South America a surplus bigger than any which has ever before existed in this country," the National Wool Growers' Association announced last week. "While the wool textile industry has been working at twice the rate it has ever operated before, available supplies of wool have increased threefold. Available supplies of all wool fabrics have indeed been so plentiful recently that some clothing manufacturers have actually canceled their orders...
...world, will soon have to fight for their title with another U.S. product: Vought-Sikorsky's gull-winged Corsair. Grumman's new torpedo-plane Avenger has no equal in foreign services. Consolidated's Catalinas have piled up an unequaled record for reliable scouting. And bigger and faster flying boats are coming: Consolidated's four-engined Coronado, Martin's gargantuan Mars...
Nobody knows yet exactly what gas rationing and the rubber shortage are going to do to churches and churchgoers. Nearly everybody agrees that these short ages have already caused changes in U.S. churchgoing habits, are due to cause more and bigger changes in the near future. Hardest hit are the rural areas, where countryfolk often have to drive miles to get to church. In cities, however, gas rationing is proving a blessing in disguise: more people, unable to use their cars, are now going to church for diversion. Some other changes noted by churchmen...