Word: biggers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bigger output of equipment for land armies and army-support aviation, as opposed to naval and long-range bomber construction...
...examples* of Judge Kaufman's actions which he said "bordered on misconduct." Nixon thought the Un-American Activities Committee (of which he is a member) should investigate the judge. Many a lawyer, in & out of Congress, who had his own reservations on the handling of the trial, had bigger reservations about allowing Congress to invade the province of the judiciary...
...boom in television, they found, was even bigger than they had guessed. Videotown's most startling statistic: a year ago, one out of every 50 families owned a TV set, now one out of every nine...
Television might still be a luxury, but 81% of the sets in Videotown are owned by families in the middle or lower income brackets. But the customers were hunting lower prices and bigger screens, and they were not particular about makes. Two manufacturers who had 60% of Videotown's sales at the start of the survey failed to keep pace with the big screen-cheaper set demand. Result: this year their share...
Died. Francis Sydney Smythe, 49, Mt. Everest climber, writer (more than 20 books on Himalayan and Rocky Mountains subjects) and color photographer; of an unidentified disease contracted in The Himalaya; in Sussex, England. Graduating from. Swiss Alpine feats to bigger things (Kinchinjunga, 28,146 ft, 1930; Kamet, 25,447 ft., 1931), Smythe tackled Everest (29,141 ft.) in 1933, reached the 28,000-ft. level, had to turn back after trying alone for the summit. During the war he trained U.S. and British troops in mountain warfare...