Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boeing Airplane Co. is famed around the world as the nest which hatched the Flying Fortress and the B29. But citizens of its home town, Seattle, think of it in more practical terms-it is their biggest payroll and a financial well which waters the city and a great part of the country around it. This summer, with a postwar peak of 26,000 employees working on B-50s, on doubledecked Strato-cruisers and on sub assemblies for its jet-powered B-47, it was supporting one in seven families in Seattle...
...ointment. Naples, and the world, had changed in three decades; Angelo's brothers were anti-Catholic Communists; Anna's people, the Coronas, were anti-Communist Catholics. Queerly enough, they all lived in the same building, on the Via Padre Ludovico da Casoria, near Naples' biggest market...
...ready, too. Their jeep-hats bobbed in school corridors, their scat-talk filled the classrooms, some of their jackets bore the inscription "Bebop is spoken here." In bebop or any other language, vacation was definitely over. Across the country, some 30,000,000 public, private and parochial schoolkids, the biggest crowd in history, were back in class or getting ready...
...almost every city and town in the U.S., the big problem was finding room for the war babies. New York City expected its biggest enrollment in seven years; it had eight new school units to accommodate it, was building 20 more. Los Angeles had built 835 new classrooms for elementary pupils alone, then found that that was not nearly enough. Detroit had raised $55 million for new grade schools, but it knew that its troubles were just beginning. "This part is easy," said one school-board member. "Just wait till this crop hits the high schools...
...level, and for 172 department stores, net profits for 1949's first half were 58% below the 1948 period. Some merchants thought that further price cuts were in order. Last week, five men's clothing chains trimmed suit prices from $3 to $10. One of the ten biggest U.S. distillers, Glenmore, announced the first major postwar price slash in bottled-in-bond bourbon whisky (a cut of $1 a bottle on Kentucky Tavern, retailing in Manhattan...