Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when she ran across a pile of old Easy Aces transcriptions. With his race-track sense of a good thing, Goodie arranged with Ziv transcription agency (TIME, April 28) to farm out the old records to hundreds of independent stations. The canned Easy Aces is now heard by a bigger audience than ever listened to it as a live show and nets the Aces an easy $75,000 a year...
Last week a "high Finnish source" let it out that Moscow wanted a new trade agreement, would like to start negotiations in October. It was a cloud on the horizon, and no one could say-yet-whether it was bigger or smaller than a man's hand. The Finns hoped that Moscow was not disturbed by the fact that,-on one recent day, there were 17 U.S. ships in Helsinki harbor...
From the age of 13, when he first decided to be a tennis player (rather than a baseball player), it has been his whole life. First he became champion of San Bernardino's Arrowview Junior High. Then, at 14, he went hunting bigger game, and got his ears pinned back in the first round of a Santa Monica boys' tournament. It was a terrible shock...
...handsome German import-export banker who inherited his prosperous business thought currency restrictions silly because they interfered with some of the bigger deals...
...fuel tank. The tank was all but empty. The Army Air Forces were down to a 90-day supply. The Navy has less than half its operating needs. With the U.S. now using as much petroleum as the entire world consumed ten years ago, oil companies had scrambled for bigger shares of the civilian trade, and the services were being squeezed...