Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bubbles by the Reef. Currently completing the next Bond film, Thunderball, in Nassau and London, Co-Producer Kevin McClory predicts: "In this film, James Bond will be a bigger superman than he has ever been before, bigger than he ought to be." To make sure the film tops fantasy, $1,500,000 is being sunk into underwater effects alone, including a drowned Vulcan bomber, a two-man sub with mock-up atom bombs (stenciled "Handle like eggs") tucked under its manta-ray wings, eight SPECTRE henchmen skimming through the water on jet-powered underwater scooters. There will even be underwater...
...point there," explains Ashin. Most helpful, recalls Blake, were Ash in's keen pointers on how "to use questions to bring the students to question among themselves." Blake also appreciated Ashin's advice on timing the discussions better so that the most significant points got a bigger share of the class period...
...farm-equipment makers, who for years have concentrated on building up a $700 million market in agricultural tractors, have found another $100 mil lion business right in the backyard - of thousands of U.S. homeowners. With increasingly bigger homesites and more money in the family budget, the small garden or utility tractor, long mostly a toy for the wealthy, has become an all-round bestseller in suburbia and exurbia. Only six years ago, garden-tractor sales were a bare 27,000 throughout the U.S.; this year the industry expects them...
...that "all religious confessions are equally free under the law"-a freedom often curtailed in practice by the unre-pealed Fascist laws. In the late '40s and early '50s, Protestant missionaries took into their churches many Catholics excommunicated by Pope Pius XII for voting Communist. But the bigger come-on was free medicine and food, leading Catholics to sneer at the Protestants as "Rice Krispies Christians...
...acquisition. The Ohio Match Co., which was churning out millions of matchbooks with Hunt recipes on the cover, seemed to Simon worth more than its stock was selling at. He began buying in, got controlling interest in 1946 by snapping up a 20% block of Ohio stock that the bigger Diamond Match Co. had been forced to surrender by federal order. From matches Simon turned to railroads, using Ohio Match money to buy a substantial block of stock in the Northern Pacific Railway...