Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head of the Army's Air Transport Command, Lieut. General Harold Lee George organized and ran an airline which was bigger (3,700 planes) than all the rest of the world's airlines combined. Last week he took a new job: board chairman and president of Peruvian International Airways, which has only five surplus planes, has not yet started operating...
...during the War, when talk turned to things to look forward to after the gold buttons were handed out, THE GAME was often mentioned. In it lay the hint of finer things to come -- bigger parties, new dates, and maybe, better seats than he had gotten at New Haven. Vag dried his face and tried to think of all the strangers he had promised to meet at the first postwar Game. He winced when he remembered how his mask of indifference had dropped one day and how he had offered to bet anyone even money -- without asking any points -- that...
...were stalled as the little buttons threatened a strike, which they hoped would shut the Exchange. If a strike came, President Schram said, brokers would run their own errands as they did on Aug. 14 during a strike-vote demonstration. Meanwhile, the small button leaders decided to get some bigger buttons to help them. They recommended that the independent union, which claims 5,000 members, from scrubwomen to tellers, affiliate with A.F.L...
Possible solution to Undercurrent's basic mystery: too many studio cooks. In the bigger, richer movie-manufacturing plants, executive geniuses are sometimes too helpful in telling the real picture makers how a picture should be made...
Only one ship from the U.S. had docked in Honolulu in six weeks. Foodstuffs were dangerously, low (90% are imported); little businesses were closing down, bigger businesses were laying off employes. The loss of $5,000,000 in wages by about 28,000 sugar workers was a crippling blow...