Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These piddling nicks out of the President's "bedrock" budget were unimportant in themselves-committees of both Houses were making bigger gashes in other bills-but they convinced Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau* that Mr. Roosevelt's recommended $460,000,000 national defense tax bill was a gone goose in this election year...
...German High Command announced that the pocket battleship Deutschland, sinker of the British armed merchantman Rawalpindi (and little else), reached home "recently." The occasion for giving out this information was the announcement that her name would be taken from her and given to "a bigger ship." Her new name would be the Lutzow, taken from a new 10,000-ton cruiser not yet commissioned. Some hopeful Allied experts hoped the real reason for this name change was that the Deutschland had been sunk by the Salmon or one of the three British submarines lost in action last month...
Aside from the ill omen which sailormen believe follows changing a warship's name, interest centred on the "bigger" Deutschland, which must be one of the four 35,000-ton (perhaps 40,000) battleships which Germany is feverishly putting together. Two of these ships, launched last February and April, were christened Bismarck and Tirpitz. A third, on the ways at Kiel, must now be ready to take the water or already has.* Perhaps all three will be ready for action early next autumn. What will that do to the balance of sea power in World...
Since then, scientists have produced a spearmint with lemon flavor, bigger tomatoes, peaches, strawberries. Dr. Blakeslee began to be harassed by letters from bald men and barren women asking if his "miracle drug" would grow hair or insure fertility. These impertinences irritated him so much that several times he almost wrote a letter to the newspapers...
Stahl is probably better fortified in the battery positions than anywhere else, with Tom Healey and Charley Brackett heading the pitching staff, and Bob Fulton as number one backstop. Captain Healey, veteran fireball artist, should be ready for a bigger and better year then ever, and the supporting mound cast looks promising. Most of Charley Brackett's work last year consisted of relief chores, but the lanky Junior is slated to step into a regular assignment this spring...