Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Promoter Tex Rickard, the Barnum of boxing, came on the scene just when the Garden's owners were getting ready to raze it. They were so impressed by his money-making shows that, when the Garden was torn down, they raised $5,000,000 to build a new & bigger one on Eighth Avenue, later listed its shares on the New York Stock Exchange...
Television's growing pains were not confined to networks and sponsors. Every week, telescreens seemed to get bigger. Bartenders were still the biggest big-screen buyers. In television territory (see BUSINESS), all well-equipped city bars had telesets. Bob Considine reported: "Television sets have become as obligatory to the bar & grill business as an ivory stick [for] beer suds." And bars that advertised "big screen" drew the customers. One of the biggest king-sized screens, Tradio's 18 by 22 ft. model (see cut), also had a king-sized price...
...Bigger Big Three. The cigarette industry's Big Three were still growing. American Tobacco Co.'s Lucky Strikes last year chalked up a record $819,631,122 in sales, and stayed in first place. But its increase in business (7.2%) was less than R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s Camels (15.5%) and Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield (10.6%). The only major company to suffer a drop was Philip Morris, whose sales slumped...
...anticipation of bigger production, K-F had tied up too much cash ($30 million) in inventories of parts and materials...
...force of only 20,000 tons of TNT. The Nagasaki and Bikini bombs, not much improved, are called "Model Ts" by atomic experts. Last week in Manhattan, before a conference of 250 U.S. mayors, Major General Harold R. Bull, attached to the Army General Staff, hinted at something bigger & better: a bomb equivalent to 40,000 tons of explosive. Apparently an improvement of at least 100% is already...