Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reversed. On this major, much-argued point, Congressmen were inclined to overrule Secretary Forrestal, who was supposed to have made the final Solomonic Decision to hold the Air Force to 55 groups (TIME, April 5). Forrestal's recommendation was based on a "balanced" military structure. His theory: a bigger Air Force is ineffective without a bigger ground force. Even Air Force men admit that U.S. aircraft cannot deliver a decisive blow against the enemy except from overseas bases defended by ground troops...
...Charter but later voted against participation in U.N. "As long as vetoes are insisted upon," he said, "there is no real will to peace. . . ." He tried to limit ERP to $4 billion, but finally voted for the $5.3 billion foreign-aid bill. He is against U.M.T., for a bigger air force...
...collapse of Protocol M was rather like the bursting of a bubble-gum balloon. One reason was that, even if Protocol M was itself a forgery, its contents squared with probable Communist aims and tactics. But Sulzberger put his finger on another, bigger reason: "This incident is characteristic of one phase of the present-day nervousness and suspicion in Europe. A network of forgers and falsifiers-some clever and some not-are busily peddling allegedly secret documents to embassies, intelligence officers, ministries and newspaper correspondents. . . . Judging from the Soviet press ... it is likely that documents are being peddled with equal...
Another Cripps object: "To provide the maximum incentive we can afford for greater production." His proposals offered rather more incentive to workers than to capital: lower income tax rates in the lower brackets; bigger earned income credits; lower purchase taxes on items like haberdashery, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, shaving soap; lower entertainment taxes...
...Americans getting bigger? Not much, reports the U.S. Army, which has )een measuring them for uniforms for a long, long time. Last week Dr. F. E. Randall, who works for the Quartermaster General, compared the sizes of large groups of U.S. soldiers in the Civil War and World Wars I & II. There was no startling difference...