Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parked his death-laden truck. Assistant Fire Chief Roy McFarlane thought he had things under control, sent one fireman to the hospital with burned hands. City Patrolman Don DeSues, 32, took over traffic direction at the nearest corner. Suddenly, George Rutherford's truck went off with a blast bigger than a World War II blockbuster, dug a 50-ft.-wide crater 20 ft. deep, pulverized six blocks of business buildings, transients' apartments and homes, smashed the windows and badly damaged a 23-block area, knocked people out of bed for eight miles around...
From their vantage point inside the Citizen's city room, Franken and Grove expanded this charter into a broadside attack on the faults of the Columbus press, peppering not only the Citizen but its bigger rival, the Dispatch (circ. 185,437): "We believe the Columbus Dispatch has been grossly unfair and inaccurate in its reporting...
Drugs are useless against most true viruses. , But the cause of trachoma is a large virus, like that of psittacosis;-ten times bigger than the virus of polio. The large viruses can be knocked out by some sulfa drugs and antibiotics-already widely used in pilot campaigns against trachoma. And the British researchers hope to make a preventive vaccine...
...agreed to try. Soon they were producing Quetta's first homespun daily, which had seven names: Tanzim (Order), Kohsar (Mountain), Bagh-o-Bahar (Garden in Spring), Qand (Sweetness), Nara-e-Haq (Voice of Truth), Zamana (Times) and Sadaqat (Righteousness). Last week they laid bold plans to float a bigger government loan, hire a pool reporter and three stencil cutters, organize group circulation and sales crews. Observing from afar, Governor Husain sent congratulations: "Bound to create history in the field of journalism." But then, Quetta's weird weeklies had already, in a sense, done that...
...They were agents for U.S. cigarette companies, anxiously collecting their competitors' new smokes to rush them back to the laboratory for analysis. Undeterred by the cancer reports-cigarette sales are running 5% ahead of 1958-U.S. cigarette companies have taken off on a scramble to grab a bigger share of the $4¼ billion-a-year cigarette market. Each hopes to turn the trick by outdoing its competitors with new cigarettes that offer the U.S. smoker everything from rum flavor to air-conditioned paper...