Word: biggers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Folks down here don't consider her-the biggest vessel on the river and bigger than many ocean-going cargo steamers-a "tugboat." She is a "towboat." An old lady of such poise, size and age should not be tagged with "tugboat...
Child of Edison. He was enforcing three musical bans at once-old bans against television and frequency modulation radio stations (which were not allowed to share standard broadcasts of music), and a brand new and bigger ban against the record and transcription business. He had gone to Washington to let the House Education and Labor Committee ask him why he had done it. He beamed happily, thumbs in suspenders (see cut), over having beaten the rap in a Chicago federal court test of the Lea Act-a piece of legislation which had been written for the specific purpose of bringing...
...Should I have the power to order it," declared Belgium's Premier Paul-Henri Spaak, "I would ban any headlines . . . on international affairs bigger than one-half inch." Newspapers, the Premier complained, treat such matters "like crime and other sensational affairs...
Hawley starts work April 1 at $15,000 a year (he will also get $6,000 Army retirement pay) . He will find his potential practice nine times bigger than it was. In the VA he had 4,000,000 patients ; there are now 29,250,000 members in Blue Cross, 7,250,000 in Blue Shield. And that is only a beginning, announced Roy E. Larsen, president of Manhattan's United Hospital Fund† and former director of the New York Blue Cross. Blue Cross membership increased 15% last year; on that basis, Larsen said, it would take only...
...Mike Benedum prowled the world in search of oil, losing fortunes in Peru and China, but making bigger ones on major strikes in Mexico, Colombia, Rumania. His most spectacular achievement was the discovery of the great Yates pool in Texas, in 1926. It prompted his claim that "Joe and I have unloosed more oil than anyone else." In unloosing it Benedum piled up a fortune estimated at over $80,000,000. The new strike, big as it was, proved only that a wildcatter could never quit...