Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When some of his candidates turned against him, started campaigning as independents, Manuel Quezon took to his easy chair, picked up the telephone beside it, dialed a number. In a few minutes he had the situation in hand. Five rebel candidates were made air-raid wardens in Manila, with bigger salaries than they would have got if elected. The rest became Acting Governors...
...yard is not the wide-winged PBYs with their tapered tails, but the graceful, powerful forms, of immense four-motored bombers resting on tricycle landing gears. These are the newest brothers of the Cat: the B-24s. The British call them Liberators. These big bombers are 4,000 pounds bigger than Boeing's famed Flying Fortresses. The B-24 has already followed the Cat into the war in Europe...
...Dreier who has painted, collected and talked about modern art for almost 30 years. One of modern art's U.S. pioneer converts, massive, hemp-haired Katherine Dreier stored away abstractions like a Connecticut squirrel hoarding nuts for a hard winter. Other later and richer art squirrels sometimes, got bigger and tastier nuts than Katherine. But her hoard contained more different kinds than any body else's in the U.S. Unable to house it properly on her farm, even though she built an extra wing for it, Collector Dreier toyed with the idea of giving it to a local...
From first-year sales of eight carloads, the Davidsons have built up a demand which this year will take 1,300 cars of their grit-enough for 39,000,000 chickens. Thanks to Claude Wickard's program for increased farm production, next year's demand looks even bigger. So the Davidsons, faced with the need for expansion, went to OPM and argued that they were in the defense business, too. OPM finally agreed...
...other change was made in the starting lineup from the eleven which first met the Army last Saturday. John Calhoun, who scored the disqualified point, began the contest at right halfback. He replaced Ward Slingerland, a bigger back whose weight and fight proved invaluable against the rough-and-tough tactics of the Cadets. Slingerland took over at right half yesterday when Calhoun was shifted to center forward...