Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until it is dead." By last week's end wheat car sidings in greater Kansas City were filling up at the rate of 1.500 cars a day, nearly double the rate of the same week last year. The Oklahoma crop, helped by rain, was 29,000,000 bushels bigger than the Government had forecast in April...
These declarations coincided with military and politico-military action. Ostensibly the action was intended to finish off the long resistance of China (see p. 20) by cutting off China's Burmese and Indo-Chinese sources of military supply. But the bigger aim was terribly clear. Pressure was applied at every nerve centre of foreign interests...
Most exacting private purchasing agent's job in the U. S. is that of Sears, Roebuck & Co., which buys some 50,000 different products from 6,000 manufacturers. Last week Sears' top merchandise man, Executive Vice President Donald Marr Nelson, got an even bigger buying assignment. From his berth as Treasury Procurement Chief, Buyer Nelson was promoted to be coordinating agent for all the U. S. Government's Defense purchases. His job: to spend the $9,000,000,000-plus Army-Navy appropriations and authorizations (on the books and in the works) on airplanes, ships, tanks, tools...
Ideal location for the proposed Nazi coup was this most pro-Allied, smallest of South American republics (size of North Dakota, population of Los Angeles). Bounded on the west by big Argentina and on the northeast by bigger Brazil, it provided an admirable base for espionage against its larger neighbors, consistent advisers on its foreign policy...
...Snyder is no friend of the New Deal. But his calculations cannot be entirely discounted as wishful thinking. In the summer of 1932 he predicted Franklin Roosevelt's election, in 1936 he predicted that Roosevelt would be re-elected by an even bigger plurality than...