Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What were the Russians after? Facing an increasingly hostile German population, their position was not much more enviable than the West's. They were simply beating against the West's weakest salient to win either its surrender-or the even bigger prize of a new conference, with Ruhr coal on the table. What could the U.S. do about it? Washington's diplomatic counterattack-which must strive not merely for present Russian withdrawal but for guarantees against future assaults-could start with a formal protest to Moscow (which was being readied this week). The next possible steps...
Unlike most of his fellow Bach organists, who are scandalized at the thought of an organ bigger than the one Bach wrote for, Dupré likes an organ with all the "French horns and fluttery tone qualities" that the romantic composers wanted, and enough extra stops for the modern improvisations which are his specialty...
...organ Dupré was playing last week in Chicago suited him to a T. It was a little bigger than the earth-shaking organ at St. Sulpice on Paris' Left Bank, which he has played on & off for the past 42 years and considers the world's best. But Chicago's is still a runt-only four manuals and 126 stops-compared to Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall monster, which has ten manuals and 364 stops, including a bass drum, glockenspiel, Chinese gong, xylophone, a grand piano, harp and two bird whistles...
...Show. One enthusiast has estimated that its central terminal area-offices, depots, waiting rooms, plane ramps and parking spaces-will be bigger than eight Yankee Stadiums, five Rose Bowls and six Madison Square Gardens. To keep the passengers happy-and spending-the Authority hopes to build a hotel, movie theaters, a sports arena. By 1958, $170,000,000 will have been spent to make Idlewild a sightseeing center whose income will pay for the chronic deficits of airport operation...
...some, it all sounded like a renewal of the feud between Giannini and FRB's Marriner Eccles, whose family's banking empire in the Rockies (TIME, May 10) stands smack in the way of A.P.'s ambitions to expand eastward. It was bigger than a personal feud. The board's complaint was unanimously endorsed by its seven members. Its result might well be a crucial test of one of the strongest Strong Men in U.S. financial history...