Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Believe It?" With all that gold out front, she said, why should the servants live in squalor in the back? Harking back to the days when she triumphantly introduced cold running water into the servants' quarters of the U.S. embassy in Argentina, she demanded bigger rooms, toilets and even balconies, instead of the sparse quarters that Europeans customarily provide for their help in India. "Can you believe it?" said she. "They weren't even going to have chimneys for their stoves." Harriet Bunker's crusade cost an extra $250,000, probably delayed the completion of the building...
...Growth. For the philosophy behind the acquisitions, Chandler always refers to his "growth map." Says he: "In the next ten years, domestic help will be almost nonexistent, and housewives wash an average of 150 dishes a day. Families are getting bigger, and more wives are working. The growth in convenience foods is going to be terrific. We're just at the beginning of the era." Chandler estimates that packaging in the food industry today is a $6 billion market; by 1965 he expects it to be $9.5 billion...
Hypothesis I. There are two major competing theories about the universe's origin, he explained. "Evolutionary" theory holds that all the matter that now exists was once concentrated in a single mass that may have been no bigger than the earth's orbit. This "primeval atom," whose density must have been something like 2 billion tons per cubic inch, disintegrated 20 to 60 billion years ago. Its matter turned into hot, rapidly expanding gas, and stayed in this condition until about 9 billion years ago. Then the gas began to condense into the billions of galaxies, each containing...
...industry that could turn the economy's slow growth into a gallop is autos, where the potential market is bigger than at any time
...bigger than that...