Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raised the hackles of big-city mayors two months ago by proposing to bear half the cost of all airport projects up to $2,000,000. For bigger projects, CAA would scale down its help below the 50%. CAA thought that what the U.S. needed was more smaller airports to boost private flying. But big-city mayors, led by Chicago's Ed Kelly, argued with a great deal of truth that what the country needed was bigger & better airline terminals to relieve dangerous congestion at existing airports...
...this one memorable broadcast, television proved that its window on history was almost as clear as the newsreel's, and far closer in time. Telecasters bragged that they would soon be opening their window on bigger & better sights; RCA President David Sarnoff announced that the 1948 presidential campaign would be televised. But unless television got a move on, few in the U.S. would see a political or any other kind of telecast...
Some $22 billion has been declared surplus with another $7 billion to come, said the report. Property which cost $12.5 billion has been disposed of for about $2.2 billion, a gross yield of only 17.5 percent. But after charging off selling costs, and the bigger losses it will take on the less desirable surpluses left, WAA "may end up with a net loss...
Object Lesson. What would happen to the U.S. economy in 1947 was inextricably tied up with a bigger long-run problem: What would happen to the world's economy? J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc.'s President George Whitney said: "If this country is to prosper we must try to help raise in some measure the standard of living in other countries and thereby bring about a wider market for our goods...
...long while would need far more lead, copper, tin, natural rubber, etc., than it could hope to produce or substitute synthetically. And in the long run, the U.S. would not be able to absorb all of the tremendous flow of goods which it is capable of producing, would need bigger outside markets to buy them...