Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benson has been the victim of a farm-productivity revolution, the combined workings of improved fertilizers, more and bigger farm machinery, deadlier pesticides and higher-yielding hybrid plants. But even his friends have begun to wonder whether he may have hindered rather than helped his announced aims. He justly carps at Capitol Hill's farm-vote-minded refusal to grant him all the support-shrinking powers he has asked for ("Our recommended program has never been given a real try"), but he has not always used the powers that he has to limit price supports, e.g., he voluntarily provided...
...dawn, dressed in his usual rags and with his long, uncut hair bound by a kerchief, Kawamura borrowed a spade and rushed into the field. Passersby paused to watch and to jeer and cheer him as he dug all morning long. It was a much bigger job than he-had expected. By noon Kawamura had dug down 6 ft. of earth and uncovered one face of the tombstone-a massive slab 1 ft. thick and 4 ft. wide. Apparently bent on a rest, he started to clamber out of the 6-ft. pit. But. at just that moment, the huge...
...Argentina, prices overtook a general wage increase of 60%, granted by President Arturo Frondizi shortly after he took office in May. With bigger paychecks bidding for the same goods and services, the cost of transportation has gone up 50%, newspapers 70%, a cup of coffee 60%, beer 70%, the movies 50%. Result: Buenos Aires movie operators struck for higher wages, closing theaters, and butchers shut up shop rather than sell price-controlled meat...
...diverticulum (Latin for a small bypath) of the large bowel is a little pouch or sac formed by pressure inside the gut, forcing the inner layer (mucosa) through a weak spot in the outer, muscular layers. It may be no bigger than a BB shot, or it may be the size of a plum with a stalklike neck. If the neck is extremely narrow, fecal matter forced into the diverticulum will stay there, setting up an ever-present threat of infection and making the condition harder to detect since the barium used to get X-ray contrast may not penetrate...
...University ('36), set up practice in Chicago. In 1954, invited in by dissident investors, he won an acrimonious proxy war for control of the little Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, boosted earnings fast. In 1956, with one-third of its stock in his control, Heineman went after the much bigger but shaky North Western, was invited in by the board as chairman. A few hours after taking over, Heineman left on a six-week, 9,000-mile tour along North Western's tracks. He learned that what was needed was radical modernization. He chopped the North Western...