Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unless we do, our superior soldiers and sailors and flyers will continue to be driven back and slaughtered by little men with bigger weapons. Unless we do, it will be not the Japs but ourselves who are 'no damned good...
...citizens who had been beaten by the hopelessness of the Depression were electrified by the words and actions of the man who said that the wheels could turn, that the good life could flourish, that all groups in the U.S. could work together in a cause bigger than any one of them. But the hopelessness they had felt then was nothing compared to the hopelessness that was felt by millions over the world, in the year 1941. The relief and release that U.S. citizens felt in 1933, when the President broke the paralysis that had gripped them, was nothing compared...
...this week the scholarly, economics-wise Brookings Institution brought up its reserves in support of Senator Byrd, recommended even bigger savings ($2,085,000,000) than had Byrd's committee. Brookings' proposed cuts, mostly from the same places Byrd would make them, would take more from agriculture, much more from highways, flood control and public works. The Brookings report said that the Government had not yet really come to grips with the situation, added: "Yet if the will to do so exists, the proposed $2,000,000,000 curtailment can be made without difficulty...
...A.E.F. observer, General Dargue studied French and British methods of training air corps personnel, began whooping it up for a bigger air force in the '20s. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for successfully leading five amphibians on an 18,000-mile flight through South America, the first of the Pan-American aerial good-will tours. Over Buenos Aires another plane crashed into Dargue's. While he was still too bewildered to think straight, he was thrown from his wrecked plane. His ripcord caught in a bit of debris which opened his parachute and he floated...
...Sandy Jarman had had his way, the U.S. today would be pockmarked with anti-aircraft batteries. For 20 years he has agitated for bigger & better anti-aircraft defenses, has raised lumps on his skull butting against conservative prejudices and tightwad spending policies. He played a big part in developing the uncanny directors that put modern anti-aircraft guns on their targets. In 1939 he took over the command of the Panama Coast Artillery, established in the Canal Zone jungles the best U.S. anti-aircraft system in existence...