Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million U.S. people move every year. In big cities they usually move only a few blocks, in small towns, across the street. Their reasons: to be near the Joneses, to get more sun in the living room, an extra bedroom for Junior, a bigger garden, lower rent-or restlessness. This year more U.S. families will move than ever before, and they will move farther. The cross-country trek to inland defense centers was 50% greater this spring than...
...ends economic competition between Chattanooga's two remaining papers and puts them in a position to make wartime operating economies, Groceryman McDonald became president of a new company which will pool circulation, advertising and mechanical staffs of the News-Free Press (evening) and the Chattanooga Times (morning). A bigger compliment to Groceryman McDonald was the agreement by the Chattanooga Times (the late great Adolph Ochs's steppingstone to the New York Times and still controlled by the Ochs family) to discontinue its evening edition. Started two years ago to give the fast-growing News-Free Press...
...Instead of trying for pinpoint targets and bringing bombs home if they cannot be found, the R.A.F. is now going after the whole industrial districts of towns like Rostock, which they hit four nights in succession (TIME, May 4). Moreover the weight of bombs dropped on Rostock because of bigger planes and repeat visits was 800 tons compared to the 530 tons dropped on Coventry...
...Russians for the attempted assassination of Ambassador Franz von Papen had proceeded with scrupulous honesty and little conclusive evidence. The Turks resented Russian press attacks and bullying demands that the defendants be released. But, like Ambassador Steinhardt's search for new wineglasses, the trial was incidental to bigger things. For in the spring of 1942 Turkey looked farther ahead. When & if the belligerents exhausted themselves Turkey's now neutral army might well be a factor in the future of Europe...
Many schools tightened their belts, have asked their boys to make their own beds, are getting along with fewer teachers and bigger classes. They have also introduced new courses helpful to the Army & Navy (e.g., radio, gas engines). The typical curriculum is now 75% cultural, 25% technical. Pondering their future, some even talked of asking for Government scholarships...