Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even George Berry's enemies admit that everything about him is big. He has been president since 1907 of the International Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union of North America (50,000 members). He owns the biggest color-label printing plant in the U. S., at Rogersville, Tenn., and outside Rogersville the biggest farm in the Southeast (30,000 acres). It was thus a foregone conclusion that when George Berry began buying up mineral leases among farmers in the area later flooded by the TVA's Norris Dam, the marble he was looking for would turn...
...Artillery Armory in The Bronx a weary group of men turned up their visors, pushed back their chairs on which they had been sitting for 24 days. They had just completed a count of 2,013,101 ballots. It had been going on since November 5, the longest and biggest counting job ever undertaken in any U. S. city. New York had replaced its old board of aldermen with a new city council, and the council's members were the first city officials ever to be elected by proportional representation. A few days before, counters in the four other...
...once been photographed perched on Primo Camera's arm, the reporters and newsmen gleefully learned that the Willard was serving them free lunch and liquor. They ate in shifts, later took turns in a poker game, for any opening of the locked door might mean the biggest labor story since the strike in "Little Steel." Some papers kept private lines open to the Willard, and all press services kept a running story on their wires...
...conscious citizens of Danzig were jubilant. At Schichau's shipyard in the mouth of the Vistula work was proceeding on two great ocean liners, biggest ever to be built in the ancient Hanseatic town. When war came with that year's early harvest one had been launched and later was slowly completed, but only the hull of the other had been riveted-and after German workers marched to war, work on it was abandoned for nearly seven years...
...guest bedroom in a beach bungalow," in which the smell of sulfuric acid from the storage batteries mingled with smells from the electric cookstove. Through the out-of-date, foggy periscope of the L-9, the Captain could just make out "a rather blurred image of the nearby seascape." Biggest moments in the life of theLL-9 came when the Second, or chief executive, relayed the Captain's order to dive: "Take her down." When she headed for the bottom there was always a strong chance that she might not level off at the right depth, and "a submarine...