Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same joy and enthusiasm for freedom of speech, peaceful assemblage, free conscience, trial by jury and the benefits of personal freedom that the Germans have put into their youth by teaching them national pride, race arrogance, and international hatred. We be lieve this is our really big job, bigger than saving Britain as our first line of defense -for what good will it do to defend Britain to save our own hides and have our own youth insensitive to those precious rights which our ancestors for a thousand years have bought with their blood and treasure...
...Paper. Congress last month wrote down a second, still larger fleet-to-be, 70% (1,325,000 tons) bigger than the Navy then existing and planned. Reason: Hitler. With this new program, the U. S. Navy was to have the hitherto incredible total of: 15,000 airplanes, 35 battleships (including several 45,000-ton ones), 20 aircraft carriers, 88 cruisers, 378 destroyers, 180 submarines...
Destroyers. But though the President talked of defense, of conscription, of naval building and of the strength of U. S. defense next year, he said not a word about a question that grew bigger each day last week-the sale of U. S. World War I destroyers to Britain. From Texas came an appeal-not that the destroyers be sold, but that the President give the people the facts. The Dallas News (see p. 48) put it in an open letter: "No citizen of this country can be disinterested in the effect on our future of a defeat for Great...
...women there was the old German formula of Kinder, Kirche, Kuche (Children, Church, Kitchen). "What is ruining France," wrote Le Figaro, in warning women to retire from professions and to have bigger families, "is the number of childless couples who live a selfish life appropriating two incomes from salaried positions...
Unlike many a bigger road, A. & R. is no stranger to net profits. Only once has it failed to show a profit in the last 20 years. Never has it failed to pay preferred dividends and bond interest ($8,949). For this rare railroading record, natives credit the canny Scot management of the sons of old John Blue, gaunt, black-haired, bushy-browed President William Alexander Blue, 59; small, emaciated Vice President Halbert Johnston Blue, 44, and Secretary-Treasurer Henry McCoy Blue...