Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election-year splash of generosity, the Senate last week passed a $2.5 billion omnibus housing bill, about $1 billion bigger than the President requested. Piled atop the antirecession housing program enacted earlier this year, the new measure (which the House will probably trim a bit) brought the Senate's total 1958 housing appropriation to a dizzying $4.3 billion...
...Bayne-Jones committee grasped unflinchingly the prickly questions of how good a job the Government agencies are doing and whether there is a danger in letting Big Government get a still bigger role in research. (Its share of costs has zoomed from 32% to more than 50% in ten years.) On the first score the committee concluded: NIH has done a generally excellent job; its system of making grants to universities and independent medical schools and research groups (TIME, Nov. 18) has avoided "the twin dangers of bureaucratic interference with science, leading to loss of freedom by scientists and universities...
...HARVEST will equal last year's record despite crop controls, will create bigger stockpiles and raise Government farm costs. Wheat and soybean production will grow to new high, though cotton and corn will drop...
After its worst first quarter since World War II, the trucking industry last week saw signs that business is picking up. Tonnage hauled in May was 2.6% above April (though still down 5.8% from last year). Truckers expect the June figures to show a bigger rise. To economists, who consider trucking a good index of general business conditions, it was another cheering sign of improvement in the U.S. economy. Truckers haul about 20% of the nation's freight -and because most of their freight is finished products rather than raw materials, they are sensitive to a pickup in sales...
...bigger the business, the better it has resisted the recession. The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission reported last week that in 1958's first quarter, small businessmen suffered the worst profits pinch. For manufacturers, the annual rate of after-tax profit to stockholders' equity...