Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time the successful hostess will show her mettle, provided of course that she has stocked up on a variety of conversational cues. She can always start up a new buzz by casually reciting a line of poetry such as: I talk to the fire hydrant, asking: "Do you have bigger tears than...
...next months. This flood would easily top the 40,000 that Poland let out after its 1956 thaw, and would leave Russia's 3,000,000 as the only big Jewish community remaining in Eastern Europe. Rumania's action, says one Israeli official, "promises to be bigger than the Spanish expulsion...
...last. When the earth acquired oceans, the great tides aroused in them by the nearby moon made the earth rotate more slowly. This made the moon spiral outward. As it moved, it crashed into the lesser satellites, each of them blasting an impact pit in its surface. The bigger pits punched through the moon's crust and were filled with lava from the molten interior. The biggest satellite of all, about 100 miles in diameter, hit the present site of the lunar plain called Mare Imbrium-the right eye of the "man in the moon...
During the 1930s and '40s, Eaton was busy parlaying what he salvaged from the Depression into a second fortune even bigger than the first. With the financial help of RFC, Eaton diverted an Ontario river and drained a lake to get his huge Steep Rock iron-ore mine working, went back into steel by forming Portsmouth Steel Corp. with holdings in Detroit Steel and Cleveland-Cliffs Iron, helped that other great RFC beneficiary, Henry J. Kaiser, bankroll his ill-fated auto venture. Then, at a critical moment, Eaton backed out of a deal to underwrite $11.7 million worth...
...ring even tighter, August Thyssen-Hütte, one of the keystones of a huge Third Reich steel combine of 177 companies, has applied to the High Authority to merge with Phoenix-Rheinrohr, West Germany's third biggest steel producer. The move would create a giant even bigger than Krupp-Bochumer Verein, with a 6,000,000-ton capacity and nearly $1 billion in sales. Mannesmann, the No. 4 steel producer, recently eliminated several of its subsidiaries, absorbed them into the main firm. The trend to growth extends beyond iron and coal. Friedrich Flick, a prewar steel baron...