Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes now live-are a daily test of endurance. Robert Waite, a Sierra Leone native who heads Mayor John Lindsay's Harlem task force, likens the Manhattan ghetto to "an underdeveloped country." It lacks indigenously owned business, gets little risk capital, and keeps losing its talent to bigger industries elsewhere-just as in underdeveloped countries. "In underdeveloped areas," he adds, "colonial banks were the only source of credit, and rarely did an indigenous businessman receive a loan until independence permitted the establishment of local banks...
...industry, devote an estimated 20% of their gross output to a huge military establishment (v. 10% for the U.S., which has, however, a gross output twice as large). But at the same time, the long-neglected Russian consumer is coming in for a larger slice of the new and bigger economic pie. A Russian who has the money no longer has to wait for weeks to buy a TV set or a simple household convenience such as a refrigerator. In anticipation of 50th-anniversary celebrations planned for this fall, shops in the major cities are filled with colorful merchandise...
...months, Ford Motor Co. has been re-examining its operations abroad with an eye toward a bigger share of the world market. Recently it established Ford of Europe, Inc. to provide better overall control of its British and Continental subsidiaries. Last week Ford was market building again outside the U.S., this time looking south to Latin America. The company announced it is buying a majority interest in Willys-Overland do Brasil, Brazil's second largest automaker...
Zanuck and his counterparts have found, as one of them put it, that "the road show is a gamble over a longer haul for a bigger haul." The haul is longer because hard-ticket attractions involve higher production and promotion costs; and since they generally play only once or twice a day in only one theater, they can't gross as much, even with their higher admission prices, as the standard release that runs five times a day all over town. The haul gets bigger, however, when the hard-ticket show goes into the second-run, or "grind," theaters...
...southwestern Britain. Though only part of the oil reached the beaches, the accident cost Britain $7,000,000 in cleanup charges, polluted the sea from Cornwall to Brittany and dealt heavy damage to marine life in the area. And there are other vessels afloat that could make an even bigger mess...