Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Body. In Denver, though police twice chalked a car for overparking, they paid no attention to it "because we had a bigger job on hand-the solving of [Dewitt] Chandler's murder." Four days later, after repeated calls from neighboring businessmen, they investigated, found it was Chandler's car. Inside, undisturbed for four days, was Chandler's body...
...management against raises now is that they will hasten the inflationary spiral of rising prices and costs, leave labor's real wages lower, or no better, than before. But Murray has run his own plough around the field of economics and is convinced that labor could get a bigger share of profits now, and could do so without disturbing present prices and costs. He cries shame over a Social Security report that 10,000,000 workers in private industry earned less than $500 apiece in 1937 (highest wage year between...
...rest, the bigger & better part of Convoy, is the sea, and the deadly hide-and-seek of men and ships on it. Producer Michael Balcon and Director Pen Tennyson have given the picture a realism that makes even The Long Voyage Home look like a studio piece. This realism of the sea is shot through with the realism of sea war. Terror is in the form of ships, the shapes of guns and conning towers. It is in the fog which hides the pursued, but also hides the pursuer. It is under the dark, heaving water; and even...
Meyer Davis has his bigger checks photostated, consoles himself when moody by gazing at them with a collector's eye-a fine Widener for $10,000, an early Atwater Kent for $7,940, and so on. Mr. Davis likewise takes pleasure in stories in which his publicity men (one of them is his brother Uriel) describe his Manhattan penthouse, his suave butler. Actually Meyer Davis is the first to admit that his Manhattan apartment is modest. The chief Davis establishment is in Philadelphia...
...again last week, and new orders were piling up faster than ever. Automakers competed in the market. Pennsylvania Railroad announced a car-building program ($17,500,000 worth) that would require some 80,000 tons of steel; Union Pacific announced one almost as large. Steel's backlog grew bigger than ever, pushed delivery dates on new orders well into 1941's second quarter. Hence one of the hottest questions in Washington-should steel expand its capacity?-grew hotter than ever...