Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bogged Down. Ocean Spray grew bigger than any other cranberry cooperative because Founder Marcus Urann, figuring that housewives were tired of stewing fresh cranberries, decided to can some cranberry sauce. Housewives ate it up. Even so, cranberries sold mostly around holidays, and sales grew no faster than the population. The industry suffered its greatest setback in 1959, when the Government seized a few cranberries sprayed with aminotriazole weed killer and announced that cranberries so contaminated might cause cancer. That Thanksgiving and Christmas, and in the months that followed, the public reluctance to buy cranberries almost ruined the industry...
...symbolically hiked the tax on two national luxuries: sparkling wine, of which the Germans now consume more than the French, and schnapps. Most important, Erhard announced plans to renege on some of his party's pre-election promises by paring or postponing bills that were to give bigger handouts to his country's already well-subsidized refugees, mothers, students, farmers and coal miners...
...will Europe be able to absorb this output when it begins flooding the market in the next three years? Despite warnings that capacity might rise faster than demand, fiber makers see little real danger ahead. Competition should mean lower prices, thus bigger markets. The biggest reason for optimism is the European consumer. Though synthetic-fiber production has doubled in five years, the average Frenchman still owns only two suits, and the average German woman still buys half as many girdles and bras as her U.S. counterpart...
...fall outside these two major divisions of society (such as sharecroppers, small farmers, shopkeepers, professionals working for themselves), it is the employer-employee relation which s basic. Only the working class finds its interests impossible to fulfill within the present economic relation. The small farmer can get a bigger farm. The shopkeeper can get a bigger shop. But the worker wants to reap the full measure of his production--and he can't as long as the capitalist appropriates his pound. That is, whereas all other conflicts can be settled within the capitalist system, only the worker-employer conflict cannot...
...Bigger Risk. American planners still feel that the risk involved in blasting North Viet Nam's industrial complex-as LeMay demands-is too high. Such attacks would do little to hamper North Viet Nam's war effort, since most of its weapons and ammunition come from Red China and Russia. More important, goes the U.S. reasoning, if Ho Chi Minh's "hostage" industries-coal and iron mines, port facilities and Red River dams-were taken out, he might enlarge the war by sending his 450,000-man army south in an all-out move to take South...