Word: biggers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cyclotron's up-to-date design will probably make it more powerful than its bigger (4,000-ton) rival at Berkeley, Calif. Columbia's physicists believe that their new gadget will smash not only atoms, but also the basic particles (protons, neutrons, etc.) of which atoms are made...
Every airminded schoolboy has wondered why airliners do not refuel from flying tankers. The advantages (longer range, lighter takeoff, bigger payload) are obvious. Today an airliner labors off the ground carrying fuel for the whole flight, though it will not need most of it for the first thousand miles...
Fabled Wonders. To King ranchers, big Texas talk is no bigger than the facts of their cattle kingdom: the biggest beef-producing ranch in the world. Some King-size statistics...
...acres in the ranch's four divisions make it bigger than Rhode Island. Between the northern and southern points of the ranch there is a month's difference in the seasons...
...could be the final expert on cattle raising, Bob Kleberg, at 51, would probably be it. He has a restless, all-consuming curiosity about cattle that is never satisfied. He has given his life to the job of running the King Ranch. As he says: "I have to. The bigger a thing is, the easier it is to lose!" On the ranch, he is awakened at 6 a.m. by the traditional King Ranch "good morning"-a cup of coffee brought to his bed. By 7 a.m. he has talked by phone to the foremen of the ranch's various...