Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ahead lay the lake-speckled pine woods of Ontario, the island-dotted Lake of the Woods, the breath-taking Canadian Rockies, Banff and Lake Louise. But for two out of every five of the tourists, the goal was French Canada, the province of Quebec (bigger than Texas, Oklahoma, California and Utah together...
...pictures in the Rio show are a documentary gallery of Brazilian plantation life. They also explain the steps by which Ayres is growing up as a painter, identify the bigger men to whom he is still in debt. His cubism comes from early shoulder-rubbing with modernism; having once tried to paint like Mexican Diego Rivera, he has not got over it yet. But much in the pictures is his own. Even more than imagination, the paintings show enormous sympathy for the simple laborers, sure understanding of their lives and myths. The themes of the best of them are primitive...
Growing Pains. The cause of all this bedlam: 1) the sudden boom in commercial aviation; 2) airlines' management. Personnel policies are antiquated, pay is low and big-business methods are virtually unknown. Some executives believe that bigger, faster planes will solve things, forgetting that they will only cause bigger problems at obsolete airports. Rather than use the partial benefits of radar in its present form, the industry is holding out for an all-purpose system, which is at least five years away...
Water & Power. The $31,000,000 Republican Dam, which Pick expects to have finished in 1950, will open up 90,000 acres to irrigation, boost farmers' income an estimated $2.5 million a year. That is only a small piece of the whole vast undertaking which covers an area bigger than France, Spain and Italy combined...
...National Bank and Trust Co., will give Pittsburgh its first $1 billion bank (16th largest bank in the U.S.). It also intends to give such other giants as Manhattan's Chase National and old A. P. Giannini's Bank of America some tough new competition for a bigger share of the nation's industrial loans...