Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germans are car owners, and 20% of new buyers are hourly wage workers who, ten years ago, could not afford or get anything bigger than a motorbike...
Usually these days, neo-Nazism takes the form of desecrating Jewish graves, chalking swastikas on walls or trying to break up performances of The Diary of Anne Frank. But Vienna police decided that a secret society of juvenile delinquents called Bundes Heimattreuer Jugend had bigger ambitions. Last week they raided the B.H.J., seized arms and explosives and uncovered plans to dynamite the Italian embassy as a means of aggravating the Austro-Italian dispute over South Tyrol ; the young thugs also planned to rough up delegates to the Communist World Youth Festival in July. Police arrested 18 members, including 27-year...
...informed investor thinks that there is the slightest risk that the Treasury will not be able to raise funds on some kind of terms. But Treasury officials know that their financing problems are a great deal bigger than outsiders realize. The chief source of the trouble is deficit spending and fears of more inflation. Not only did the Treasury have to make up for an estimated $13 billion gap between income and outgo this fiscal year, but by the end of 1962 it must refinance $129.5 billion in public debt, most of it incurred during World War II and Depression...
Furthermore., the state-and local-government market for Government bonds is drying up. Once, most states specified that a large portion of their pension funds had to be invested in federal bonds. Today many permit them to be invested in higher-yielding corporate bonds. An even bigger Government market used to be insurance companies, mutual-savings banks, savings-and-loan associations and corporate pension funds. From 1952 through 1958, these institutions trimmed their federal-bond holdings from $23.9 billion to $20.6 billion, bypassed the Treasury entirely in putting more than $90 billion in non-Government investments...
...DELTA ROCKET will be made by Douglas Aircraft under $24 million contract. Delta, a nonmilitary rocket that will use many military components, will put 250-lb. payload into orbit 300 miles above earth, will be used until bigger booster rockets capable of launching payloads of several tons are ready...