Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three good ships from International Mercantile Marine, for South American service; announced consolidation of the Grace Steamship Co. and Columbian Steamship Co.; discussed plans for building for South American trade three new 25-knot luxury liners convertible into aircraft carriers. He also had his last say on his two biggest and unsolved problems-new construction and maritime labor...
...launch a naval building program in secrecy. The U. S. S. R. already has the world's largest army-1,300,000 men-and last week new-Navy Commissar Peter A. Smirnov declared at Moscow: "We are going to build not only the best but also the biggest navy in the world...
...more religious than city people; churches with rural constituents showed the greatest increase in giving. Highest per cent gains were in the Church of the Brethren, 16%, and the Church of the Nazarene, 13%. The Southern Baptists gave $2,300.120 more than the year before, an 8% increase. Next biggest dollar gain was in the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A.-$2,158,208, a 5% rise...
...young editors who produced the first issue of TIME were fortunately armed with valor and a good journalistic idea, for they plunged into an editorial wilderness. Whereas TIME now draws on the services of 400 of its own correspondents all over the world; is a member (one of the biggest clients) of both Associated Press...
Most U. S. burls come from Oregon, principally from the Willamette valley. Biggest U. S. burlman is Alfred Adam Loeb of Portland. Mr. Loeb was the first to ship burls directly to the veneer mills of Europe ten years ago. He now ships about 5,000 a year. Possibly 3,000 more are shipped by other people. Last week, as hundreds of Mr. Loeb's arboreal monstrosities lay on the docks of Portland's Oceanic Terminal, the Pacific Northwest forest experiment station announced that as many burls were exported in 1937 as in 1936, despite the fact that...