Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bags & Bounties. This year there will be still bigger plantings. Californians guessed their increase, alone, would run from 11% to 24%; the national increase will probably run 8% or more. All of it would bring a high price, thanks to the Government's bounty. Said a Mississippi conventioneer: "It's just a case of taking the gravy while it's good...
This week, Bermudez, still trying to get U.S. know-how to help his inefficient monopoly, landed a bigger fish. He signed a contract with a new company, the Mexican American Independent Co., giving it a twelve-year concession to drill wells along Mexico's tidelands near Yucatan and elsewhere. The new company was formed when Edwin W. Pauley, California oilman and good friend of President Truman, joined up with Ralph K. Davies. of the American Independent Oil Co. (TIME, Sept. 1, 1947) and Samuel B. Mosher of California's Signal Oil & Gas Co. The new Pauley company would...
TIME'S Paris Bureau Head Andre La-guerre cabled: "The Communists are being smoked out. There are 99 chances in 100 that France will have to face and solve her Communist problem before the free world can solve its bigger problem...
...denied wage supplements for their wives and children. Our dead are denied interment in. church cemeteries, and because there are very few civil burial grounds, they must often be buried in the open field ... In Spain the hierarchy is more intransigent than in other countries. If we were a bigger minority it might be different, but the Church is determined to keep us small. We cannot even distribute church calendars through the mail. Yet, as generally happens under repression, we are not only holding our own, but growing slightly...
...Durant, Bigger Talk...