Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patrick's touch won't be visible until the October Holiday (the August and September numbers have already gone to press). Patrick intends to make Holiday bigger, do something about its cookie-cutter picture layouts. Fuller made clear: there will be no more space for the poor man's holiday. "I don't want stories about how to cook supper in the backyard or how to save up 50? to go to Coney Island. I want articles about . . . what to do and what to see at Yellowstone Park. And in between, articles about what to wear...
...wasn't until he was appointed special prosecutor in 1943 for a graft-hunting grand jury that he attracted attention by convicting 41 small-time politicians and racketeers. Suddenly, three months ago, he was fired, ostensibly for excessive expenditures, but just as he was sighting in on bigger political game...
...rival representatives vainly continued their negotiations last week, the Nanking dopesters tried to guess what was in Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's mind. His bigger, better-equipped armies might score quick victories if they were unleashed. The reactionary clique within the Kuomintang clamored: "If [General Marshall] would only let us at the Communists we could clean them out in three to six months." (U.S. officers in China regard this estimate as optimistic...
...that ads were sinister ("most people like to read ads"), but only that its press equipment was not up to expanding to an ad-filled paper. Just give him a few hundred thousand more nickels a day, pleaded crusader Ingersoll, and he'll not only put out a bigger and better PM-he'll build up a whole chain of them...
...Senate last week rose Montana's James E. Murray, wealthy, New Dealing chairman of a special Senate Committee on Small Business. In his hand he had a 359-page report on "Economic Concentration and World War II." Its gist: Big Business, fattened on prime war contracts, was now bigger. He underlined this with a bit of demagogy...