Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Business. Next to Government, society is Washington's biggest business. Its annual expenditure runs to tens of millions of dollars. It absorbs the energies of 40 or 50 top-flight hostesses, debutantes, party consultants, 25 society columnists and writers, and assorted sycophants and camp followers...
Hubert's and Avignone Freres, Washington's biggest caterers, each handle up to 700 parties during the season, as many as 14 a day during the December peak. Ridgewell's can supply 200 silver table settings instanter. Hubert's even has Washington's drinking habits well measured-three cases of champagne for every 100 guests. Total costs for a little buffet reception of 1,000 people, including service, flowers, awnings and orchestra, run not less than $15 a head...
...Turning in the biggest profits of any single U. S. company in 1948 (an estimated $450 million...
...fact it had lost its place as the world's biggest auto maker...
Last week Producer Selznick announced the closing of his biggest loan-out deal-probably the biggest of its kind in movie history. For a price that ran "well into seven figures" ($1,500,000 was a likely guess), seven Selznick stars will go to Warner Bros, for a total of eleven or twelve pictures: Jennifer Jones (whom D.O.S. is expected to marry this year), Gregory Peck, Joseph Gotten, Louis Jourdan, Shirley Temple, Rory Calhoun and Betsy Drake...