Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada's delegation to the Paris Peace Conference will be small, only six. But it hopes its influence will be bigger. Last week Prime Minister Mackenzie King told Parliament that he himself would represent Canada. It would be his second trip to Europe in ten weeks. Since the House still had plenty to do, he would take no opposition leaders with him. But he was certain that they would agree with his simple statement of Canada's position. Said he: Canada seeks no territories nor reparations. It wants only to help win a lasting peace...
...round, all right-but not round like a bourgeois ball; it has a more complicated, more Russian shape. So a Soviet scientist announced recently. Since 1940, said Professor Alexander Alexandrovich Izotov, he and fellow Russian geodesists have painstakingly remeasured significant areas of the earth. Their measurements make expanding Russia bigger than ever...
...clock everything was ready to roll. Fay Everett got into the saddle of the 17-year-old tractor that pulls the bigger combine. Frank Anderson cranked the combine's engine and the morning's vast silence was filled with chugging and the swish of churning slats. Frank stood atop the combine, guiding the pitch and height of its 16-foot reel as it chewed at the stalks. Now there were other sounds: the roar of Jack Anderson's tractor as he swung the smaller combine in behind his father's, and the low, steady purr...
Since World War II's end the course of events has been different. The demand has been bigger, but with OPA at the controls, the rise in prices has been gentler. Recovery of production has been far slower. There has been little speculative piling up of inventories. In fact, inventories, although growing, are still below normal...
...race to grab a bigger chunk of the world trade market than it ever had before, Britain passed the first lap last week. And it was running well ahead of its schedule to pay off its import debts by exporting 75% more goods than it did in 1938. Only six months ago, the goal seemed impossibly distant. Exports were barely 50% of the 1938 monthly rate...