Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interests of bigger and better drama Will Robinson '43 had to have most of his hair shaved off so he would look his part, and, for the same reason, Richard Wiechman '43 has been letting his hair grow for weeks...
Compromise. Behind this happy front tangled the horns of forces that some day might grow bigger than Avila Camacho. Avila Camacho has surrounded himself with a coterie of military and political strong men. Most important among his brawn trusters...
...will need at least 1,200,000 tons. That means 100% of the 12? capacity and 100,000 tons besides. For over two months, fabricators have been increasingly worried about their copper supplies. Not only are they bringing new fabricating capacity into production all the time, but they need bigger inventories than usual because of their bigger backlogs. The copper market has been approaching a real squeeze...
...silence Wall Street suffered when the rival Chicago Stock Exchange added one hour to its trading period, thus got a bigger share of the nation's stock trading. New York has pondered adding an hour to trading, rejected it because many afternoon papers might drop their financial pages if closing prices came any later...
...bull market grew bigger, he barricaded himself and a staff of 20-odd in a suite of offices in Manhattan's Squibb Building overlooking Central Park. The nameless door was guarded by a plug-ugly who kept its key locked in a little green cabinet. No one could leave while the market was open; only outgoing telephone calls were allowed. Inside, like a grand croupier, sat Jesse Livermore, a bank of telephones at his elbow, his sharp blue eyes on his private board...