Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempt to transfer the public fear of the monopolistic businessman to the Pegler portrait of the "all-powerful" labor leader. Men in the Congress and out of it are attempting to control a social organism of which they know little and understand almost nothing. The problem is bigger than the labor problem. These men who still regard labor organizations as something alien and threatening in our society are fanning fires that will some day get out of control. They are attempting to cripple the organizations that not only serve to give back to the minimized industrial worker his dignity...
Last week was one of those weeks when there was very little sensational news. For six days the New York Times, which never tries to "sell" the news by dressing it up in big headlines, had nothing bigger on its front page than a two-column head. It was the kind of week when city editors beat the bushes for crime stories-and find them...
Help from Aunt Janes. Among the Central's widely held stock, Young's Alleghany block was bigger than anyone else's (even Central's Board Chairman Harold S. Vanderbilt, great-grandson of the Commodore, held only about 60,000 shares). And Bob Young was a specialist in rallying small stockholders behind him ("Aunt Janes," he calls them). To the Aunt Janes-and the Uncle Jims-tired of being bumped around in rattletrap coaches, Bob Young appeared to be a streamlined Galahad on wheels. To fellow railroad men, whom he has unceasingly denounced in magazine articles, full...
...knew how he had accumulated so much cotton, nor would McKennon say. But he took pride in showing the folks back in Dumas, Ark. (pop. 2,315) that he had made good. McKennon never got beyond the fourth grade, where he grew so much bigger than the other boys that his family finally took him out so he "wouldn't be a-disgracing 'em." Before he left, he won a spelling bee, a triumph as sweet then as his cotton deal was last week. Said he proudly: "I sure showed 'em where the bear...
Corrigan expects to grow even bigger. He has set himself a 1947 program, exclusive of the DHC deal, which includes: 10,000 housing units in Chicago and Southern California; two skyscrapers, one in Dallas, the other in Houston; more office buildings in Fort Worth; 2,000 housing units in Dallas. Total costs should run well into eight figures...