Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coliseum Tower one bleak, humid afternoon last week, a flock of paunchy, proud fathers-to-be tried to conceal their expectancy behind a normal day's office routine. Sympathetic friends sat heavily in blue-flowered armchairs or toured a chrome-polished kitchen, which, their uneasy host boasted, was "bigger than General Sarnoff's." Then at 3 p.m. the baby was born. The baby: New York area's newest stations-WNTA A.M. and P.M., and WNTA-TV (Channel...
...down and plays-of all things-Liszt's Twelfth Rhapsody. He bowled us right over. Ordinarily, the judges would not even seriously consider anyone who played a spectacular piece like that. But it was obvious that this was an enormous raw talent; they don't come any bigger." His playing of a far more demanding repertory clinched his victory. When it was announced, he grabbed the daughter of Rosalie Leventritt, the stately dowager who sponsors the contest, and joyously waltzed her around the room before the startled judges. The next day he appeared at Mrs. Leventritt...
...budget deficit is needed to cure the recession. Well, we've got one already." The tax cut he sponsored in 1954 was an "honest" tax cut, said Humphrey, because it was covered by savings in Government spendings. But present tax cut proposals are "dishonest" because they involve bigger Government deficits. Humphrey's formula for curing the recession: "Keep your shirt on." Against this view, Fred Lazarus Jr., chairman of Federated Department Stores, argued for a tax cut to stimulate consumer buying now. Thomas McCabe, president of Scott Paper Co. and onetime Federal Reserve chairman, urged Government leaders...
Increasingly, sponsors (and viewers) have turned to the bigger, more lavish, monthly shows, which can afford better scripts, hire more expensive directors, afford big-name stars. The spectaculars are increasing in number, and, at their best, have mounted shows that the weeklies cannot match. As for their worst, TV is discovering what Hollywood has long known: if viewers must watch a second-rate drama, they would rather watch name stars playing...
...when the Big Three put out a compact car, the U.S. may see a complete reshuffling of its autos. Sales of today's medium-priced models, which are taking the worst sales licking, may shrink further, and some cars may drop out entirely. In their place, bigger, flashier Fords, Chevies and Plymouths may move up to fill the gap between low-priced and high-priced autos. At the bottom will be a new market for utility autos, simply for transportation...