Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the Army is beginning to get 30-ton mediums. In the Armored Force, plans are already afoot to use a bigger proportion of the mediums (armed with 75 mm. cannon) and an improved M-4 model is soon to go into production (biggest improvements: a revolving turret for the 75, lower silhouette, a partly welded, partly cast armor hull). British officers now concede that today's M-3 model is the finest thing on the ground...
...cities, cannot stop growing, cannot be controlled. Only big city in the U.S. accessible from all sides by highway, it has 2,000 miles of streets, the highest per capita automobile registration (807,000) in the world. In 30 years it has grown four and a half times bigger, from 101 square miles to 451. In the past year it sprouted three years ahead of itself in population (normal increase: 60,000 a year...
...over these cheerful figures hung a sinister statistical shadow. For the first time in U.S. financial history, Federal tax collectors got a bigger share of profits than shareholders. The National City Bank calculated that Federal income taxes on 140 concerns in the first nine months of this year were 55% of all profits, leaving only 45% for stockholders...
Mexico. John Gunther tore down the west coast of South America, then looped back north through Brazil and the West Indies. He began with Mexico, where he "flew over pyramids bigger than those in Egypt ... ate limes stuffed with coconut . . . found that Mexico is the country where the letter 'x' is pronounced three different ways... and where during one civic riot the taxicabs charged mounted cavalry like tanks-and won." He also talked to President Manuel Avila Camacho, who is "about as colorful as a slab of halibut," but "steady, cautious and efficient." In Mexico Gunther shed some...
...possibility of a bigger influenza epidemic than the U.S. has had in 20 years was forecast by public health doctors at a meeting in Atlantic City. Reasons: 1) the nation has been steadily losing the partial immunity it got from the flu scourges of World War I; 2) the virus that caused mild regional epidemics last year has probably been growing in strength; 3) once more hordes of men are crowded in Army camps...