Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...percussion cap of war dynamited the last tag end of the guns-v.-butter argument. In any case, that argument had long since become only a differing about degree. One group had been insisting on all-out expansion; the other group contended that the present plan was big enough-bigger, in fact, than the U.S. could take. This second group had encouraged all-out production, had discouraged all-out planning as "hysterical overexpansion." The second group's bearishness on the potential productiveness of the U.S. was given a final trample at a hurry-up session of SPAB, top defense...
...docks, keep a stiff and silent upper lip over its floods and earthquakes. Nevertheless, to deal with such occasional unpleasantnesses, it has a Major Disaster Committee. Last week, just before Japan loosed its bombs on Pearl Harbor, an expanded version of this committee was preparing to grapple with the bigger unpleasantness of war. Now that it has to go into action, it is expected to do all right. Civilian Defense Chief Fiorello H. LaGuardia rates its setup "the first and best in the nation...
Andrew Carnegie started his business as a partnership; so did the Dodge Brothers. But as business units grew bigger than men, the attractions of limited liability made partnerships almost obsolete, except among lawyers, brokers, etc. Most of this year's reversions to partnerships have been small fry. Nor is General Motors likely to turn its 390,000 shareholders into partners under any kind of income tax. But at the bottom of the ladder the form of U.S. business organizations appears to be changing under the artificial stimulus of taxation...
Fortified by its 6-1 conquest of Framingham High last Wednesday night, Clark Hodder's Yardling sextet will week bigger game tonight, whin it Journeys up to Providence to take on the Mt. St. Charles Academy stickmen in the first of a home-and-home series...
...Viking Book of Poetry (Viking; $3.50), compiled by Richard Aldington, is, by & large, the best compendious poetry anthology in the English language. Less elegant than Palgrave's Golden Treasury, less aristocratic than Quiller-Couch's Oxford Book of English Verse, it is bigger around the waist than they are, represents in its format and arrangement a superb job of publishing. Anthologist Aldington, in making his selections from the entire body of English and American poetry, tries less to hit a poetical bull's-eye than a poetical barn door. His misses are few. All the great...