Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt slept through the fall of France with a clear conscience, awaking in time for the 8 a.m. radio newscast. For this moment he was prepared, as ever. Now was the time, at last, to jerk from his hat something bigger than a rabbit. Months ago, the President had pondered the grave new world, had brooded on the dread possibility of a United States of Germany which would have terrific economic striking power.* As usual, the President asked aides to submit suggestions. An adviser with a real passion for anonymity, working under Harry Hopkins and Adolf Berle, conceived...
...Revision of network contracts with outlet stations, allowing station owners more say in the selection of programs, bigger chunks of the profits...
...Western Hemisphere. But Standard Oil's (N. J.) big refinery in Aruba, Royal Dutch Shell's huge plant in Curaçao, both in the Dutch West Indies, with a haul almost three times shorter to British ports, may also be in line for a bigger slice of Allied business-especially of finished petroleum products, since France's refineries are now in Nazi hands. One Western Hemisphere producer knew for sure that it had lost a market when Italy entered the war. Soon after Mussolini had made his radio speech, Jesus Silva Herzog, No. 1 oil salesman...
...With funds and fleet bigger than ever since The Netherlands and Belgium had joined them, the Allies were not to be starved so long as the Nazis would let them trade overseas. Canadian bins held enough wheat to feed the Allies for a year. Experts reckoned the U. S. would have 346,000,000 bu. of wheat, 266,352,000 Ib. of lard, 692,000,000 bu. of fodder corn in its storehouses this autumn. Last week Hoover's Committee, the Aldrich Committee, the Red Cross and Friends Service Committee were all gathering funds to feed war refugees...
...rates down, Grover Loening had a plan which he had set forth in bookkeeping detail in his brief to CAA. First step to air-express service, said he, is air-express planes: efficient freight-luggers built without the doodads of passenger craft, thus capable of carrying a bigger payload on the same horsepower. Airline men gasped when he first said that 345 8-ton airplanes could carry all the express now handled by the railroads, gulped when he figured out for them that a fat profit could be made at rates 1½% times rail rates. Urged by Loening...