Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a mission: to find out what was afoot on Soviet-owned Big Diomede just one and a half miles away and across the International Date Line (see map). The crew said that Russian workmen were building an airplane hangar on Big Diomede, replacing its radio station with a bigger one, that Big Diomede with its smooth ice runways ten months of the Arctic year, was being made into an advance weather, communications and flying station...
...strong as Hawaii, 2,600 miles directly south. Far west of Kodiak (and about 900 miles farther west than Hawaii) lies the Navy's outmost listening post, Kiska Island, which can be used as an advance base for air and submarine operations. Closer in toward Kodiak is a bigger station, Dutch Harbor, famed as landing place for naval patrol boat flights on Arctic training...
...Trucks: . . . no bottlenecks. . . ." Big Bottle, Bigger Club. Honest Bill Knudsen's chief object last week was to arm the U. S. people with realistic information against overoptimism and undue disappointment, when they look into the sky and see no clouds of new warplanes...
Spark plug of the pilot training program is quiet-mannered, businesslike Assistant Secretary of Commerce Robert H. Hinckley, who this March, as tsar of U. S. commercial aviation, celebrated its first year with no airline fatalities, a record which helped him sell jittery Congressmen on a bigger civilian training program for 1940-41. Bob Hinckley took his first airplane ride with pioneer German aviatrix Melli Beese when he was touring Europe as a Mormon missionary. Expelled from Germany because his gospel was believed to be disturbing the peace, he returned to the U. S. to found the Utah-Pacific Airlines...
...Chicago under 73? a bushel, a new low since the delivery went on the Board last September. Optimists, who had helped push wheat to $1.13 in April under combined impetus of drought and war, had taken another look at the situation. The chronic U. S. wheat surplus looked even bigger and more unwanted than usual...