Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outgoing Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal and, later, a surprise ceremony to give Jim the Distinguished Service Medal. Incoming Secretary Louis Johnson was eager to take over, so the transfer was moved ahead four days, and early this week he was publicly installed at the Pentagon in the biggest swearing-in ceremony ever held for a Cabinet member...
Around the village of Bazouges-du-Désert, in Brittany, the apples grow big and sweet, and the Calvados (apple brandy) is a potable that is more in demand than the local water. In the town one morning last week the biggest bell in the church tower began to peal. It was a familiar but urgent tocsin of alarm. Government tax collectors had been sighted. The revenuers were looking for illegal Calvados and unlicensed stills...
...dividends on common stock. Then, as 10,000,000 ex-servicemen rushed to buy their first civvies, American Woolen found itself so prosperous that in 1946 it declared a $12 common dividend, saw its stock soar from 29½ to 70¾. In 1948, it rang up the biggest sales ($197 million) in its history and earned $15.88 per share. But now, said Pendleton, American Woolen, like other weavers, was in a double squeeze that was choking off sales...
Some 50,000 people ("a milling, surging, disorderly crowd," sniffed the surprised Boston Herald) broke through police lines to rubberneck at the world's newest and biggest (71¼ tons), fanciest and fastest (up to 375 m.p.h.) commercial airliner. When it paused at Hartford, 30,000 gawking sightseers eddied past its figure8 fuselage. At Chicago, crowds jostled for peeks at its spiral staircase and its underbelly cocktail lounge with fuchsia-colored seats. Then it headed for San Francisco, soon dropped down on the International Air Terminal...
...exclusive landing franchises that paved the way for mail contracts. In island chains and jungles, his crews hacked out airports, strung together radio and weather networks. The better to feed his mushrooming lines, he formed a brood of subsidiaries and affiliates, of which he still has 18; the biggest are Pan American-Grace Airways and Panair do Brasil.** Whenever competitors tried to horn in, quick-thinking, quick-moving Juan Trippe managed to outfly them, outflank them or simply outlast them...