Word: bigger
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...area of the world bigger than the U.S. and Western Europe combined, the U.S., the Soviet Union and ten other nations agreed last week to disarmament and a wide-open, no-strings-attached inspection system as well. The vast (5,500,000 sq. mi.) continent of Antarctica was guaranteed for 34 years as a peaceful scientific preserve in a treaty signed with full diplomatic pomp in a State Department auditorium. Nuclear explosions are specifically forbidden; any signatory may send an observer anywhere in the Antarctica at any time to look at anything...
...arms to the Algerian rebels. De Gaulle has put it more bluntly than anyone else: he regards the present frontiers between Poland and Germany as permanent and dismisses the German dream of recovering the "lost provinces." De Gaulle is obviously no enthusiast for a reunited Germany that would be bigger in population than France. In his memoirs (now compulsory reading in all alert chancelleries), De Gaulle described his postwar German policy-"end of the centralized Reich, autonomy for the left bank of the Rhine," and some kind of loose federal regime, which, he said, was the only way that...
...With 68% of Canada's TV sets in range of U.S. stations, CBC often loses: KVOS-TV in Bellingham, Wash, consistently has a bigger slice of Vancouver viewers than does CBC's own CBUT-TV. But CBC affiliate CKLW-TV in Windsor gets 70% of its revenue from U.S. advertisers, often outdraws Detroit's WJBK-TV, WWJ-TV, WXYZ...
AIRLINE PILOTS OVER 60 will be grounded after March 15 by the FAA, which believes it hazardous to have older pilots command "the bigger and faster jets, carrying more passengers over longer routes." The Air Line Pilots Association will fight the ruling in the courts...
Blockade Runners. World War I only made Philips grow bigger faster. To circumvent the blockage of the North Sea, the company outfitted its own fleet of fast blockade-running ships. With the home market protected from competition, the brothers Philips steadily pushed into new lines, made X-ray tubes for Dutch physicians. Seeing radio coming, they were turning out receiver and even transmitter tubes by 1919. After Gerard retired in 1922, Anton aggressively expanded, set up Philips plants in most countries of the world. Today from Eindhoven, one of Europe's biggest company towns (pop. 160,000), Anton...