Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though costly, this is $1.50 cheaper than the average cost of six kodachrome positives with their prints, and new prints are bigger...
Botanist Knudson suspects that the bigger its chloroplasts, the bigger is a plant's power to synthesize food for its own growth-and for the nourishment of man and beast. So Knudson's colleagues are eagerly planning to adapt his method to develop more productive strains of corn, wheat, clover, other crops...
...include a far meatier excess-profits tax, fatter taxes on corporation incomes, higher personal-income taxes. It might include the 15% withholding tax on salaries that Mr. Morgenthau wanted last month, increased Social Security taxes, compulsory joint returns for husbands & wives. It will probably be at least $5 billion bigger than 1941's bill...
That happened a fortnight ago. Last week an even bigger part fell vacant -Die Walküre's Brünnhilde. Helen Traubel, herself pinch-hitting for Kirsten Flagstad (immured in Norway for the duration), took cold. Astrid Varnay found herself dressed up again ; this time in a red wig, a hand-me-down cuirass and tunic of one of the Valkyrie maids, a man's heavy helmet. Again the debutasters were amazed...
...grimy Zug Island in the Detroit River last week a new National Steel blast furnace was blown in less than six months after construction work began (usual time: 12-18 months). It is 105 ft. high, will produce 450,000 tons of pig iron annually, is thus even bigger than the new Bethlehem furnace ("world's biggest") blown in at Lackawanna last month...