Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...audiences nearly everywhere are as big as or even bigger than Richard Nixon's or Hubert Humphrey's, and usually twice as enthusiastic. Often they are downright fanatical. Even in such relatively tranquil and liberal states as Connecticut, Kansas and Washington, Wallace support is abundantly in evidence. "We have no racial issues," says Washington's Republican Representative Catherine May. "Who are these people in a liberal state who will spend a buck for a Wallace sticker...
With nowhere to go but up, the Democrats last week felt some faint tugs of levitation. Thanks to more efficient organization, Humphrey enjoyed bigger and better crowds than in his first round of stumping. There were some signs that the party was pulling itself together. Most important, the candidate spared himself the headline-grabbing blunders of his previous week's outing...
...machine?Humphrey was dispatched willy-nilly to Pennsylvania, Colorado, California, Texas, Louisiana, Michigan, Delaware and New Jersey. Tired when he started, he made as many as nine speeches a day. Advance arrangements were sketchy, crowds at some major stops thin or indifferent. In Philadelphia, the sparse crowd gave a bigger hand to Comedian Joey Bishop, a home-town boy who was traveling with Humphrey, than it gave to the candidate. Hecklers turned up at most stops, toting anti-Viet Nam placards ("SHHHAME," said one) and catcalling. Humphrey gamely quipped that "boo" means "I'm for you" in the Sioux language...
Alarming Rate. With bigger planes operating more flights in anticipation of that happy future, the number of empty seats is growing at an alarming rate. In addition, the industry has been bedeviled by spiraling expenses, which increased by 21.2% last year and are up almost as much more in 1968. The one-two punch has battered the profits of some of the biggest carriers. United has suffered an earnings decline this year of 49.2%, Continental Airlines of 62.5%, Eastern of 63.3%. Even worse off is Trans World Airlines, which lost $1.78 million during the year's first half, compared...
Britain's ruling Labor Party encourages corporate mergers on the theory that the country needs bigger and more efficient companies to compete in world markets. Taking the government at its word, Britain's General Electric Co. Ltd. (no kin to American G.E.), and English Electric Co., which stand one-two in the country's electrical field, obligingly prepared last week to join forces in a corporate merger that would be the biggest in British history...