Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moselle Department, along the German border, France planned to hold the biggest air-raid drill and preparedness test yet held. A "state of alert" for 36 hours was ordered...
...Biggest headache to foreign statesmen is trying to figure out what Americans think of them and the wars they are thinking of fighting...
This reviewer hopped a freight to New York for the opening, and was given the biggest thrill of his life by seeing Miss O'Connell make a tremendous hit with everybody. No one can be unaffected by the charm and beauty with which she sings. Add the fact that the lady is a genuinely good looking vocalist, and the sum equals another factor in Dorsey's rise...
...Steel is the biggest unit in the biggest of U. S. producer-goods industries. Compared to a 1937 profit of $94,944,358, U. S. Steel had a 1938 deficit of $7,755,914 -despite a final-quarter pickup in operations which earned a profit...
Although the Armstrong Investigation viewed with alarm the steady mushrooming of the biggest insurance companies, no effective legal brakes were applied. At that time there were 138 legal reserve companies with aggregate assets of $2,924,253,848. Last week Bill Douglas declared that at the end of 1937 there were 308 legal reserve companies with aggregate assets of $26,249,049,219. The biggest three companies in 1906 had some half billion dollars in assets apiece then; now they have more than a billion apiece. And Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., which in 1906 had only $176,000,000, today...