Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of the price pressure comes from farmers themselves, who need bigger farms to make their costly equipment pay. As a result, over the last decade, the price of farm land has climbed 60% faster than farm income, thus confounding the economic axiom that the value of land depends on its profit potential. Farm prosperity-profits reached a 13-year high in 1965, and this year will surpass $15 billion-and the possibility of growing export crops under the Administration's "food for freedom" program also spur expansion...
...returned full time, now shares authority with the Brinckmanns and other partners but the Warburgs own the largest share of the business. (Eric also owns a substantial part of the Wall Street investment-banking firm that he founded, E. M. Warburg & Co.) By making faster decisions than bigger, bureaucratic German banks were able to, Warburg rebuilt a substantial business in international underwriting and financing foreign trade. Today bankers throughout Europe send their bright young men to train at Brinckmann, Wirtz, and members of the firm are directors of two dozen German corporations...
...they sold out to seemed likely to stage an even bigger drama of his own. At 39, Vienna-born Charles G. Bluhdorn is already a millionaire (TIME cover, Dec. 3), has swiftly built his Gulf & Western Industries into a $300 million collection of auto-parts companies. Last week G. & W. moved to add another by a merger with Universal American, which does a $150 million business in tools, auto parts and machinery. Bluhdorn makes no secret of his urge to make Gulf & Western even bigger. As he handed Siegel and Martin a certified check for their $11.8 million, he observed...
...Leverett festival is big, and although its budget has been reduced this year, it appears to be growing bigger. It stands unique among the festivals in performing the College-wide function of displaying and judging...
...were not Goldwater-like ideologues with sleek suburban backgrounds, but simple small-town businessmen who saw no use for government above the township level and prided themselves on never having seen a city larger than Lansing (population 92,000 at the time). The automobile companies' lobbyists, who had seen bigger things, were able to control the legislative process. Williams built an honest, efficient administration, but was able to increase spending for items like education and mental health only as revenues rose from the state's intredibly regressive tax structure...