Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought it down chiefly was the greatest crop in U.S. history. In Oklahoma and Kansas, the farmers marveled at the "miracle" wheat crop. The miracle was repeated almost everywhere. The corn crop, which had been poor in 1947, was the biggest ever. All told, the U.S. harvest was 11% bigger than ever before...
...Load. The day after Franklin Roosevelt died, Harry Truman, the man who never wanted to be President, confided to reporters: "Did you ever have a bull or a load of hay fall on you? If you have, you know how I felt last night." In 1948, the load was bigger. But Harry Truman was not the abjectly humble man of 1945 who had begged every casual visitor to pray for him. He had the air of a man who felt he had learned his job. In an informal talk, he conceded recently that there were a million...
...which service could best use them. Thus, it could get at the heart of the matter. It could, by defining the use of weapons, define the real functions of the various services. It could then greatly influence a decision, for instance, whether the Navy should go on building bigger aircraft carriers. It could, in short, bring about real unification-based on what each service can do best, not on what it thinks it ought or would like...
...sacking part was true. London's famed Old Vic repertory theater had fired its directing triumvirate: Olivier, Sir Ralph Richardson and Designer Director John Burrell. The board of governors had announced "an administrative reorganization." Official reason: the Old Vic will have "bigger responsibilities" next summer when it sets up a British National Theater. A member of the governing board admitted that the official statement was malarkey. "If I told the real truth, some people's feelings might be hurt...
...again from scratch, the brothers now have a business that employs more than 300, grossed $6,000,000 this year. They sold their 80% interest in it (Marsh friends and dealers and Masonite officials own the rest) in line with the trend among family enterprises to consolidate with bigger corporations, thus make assets more liquid to pay such things as inheritance taxes...