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Word: biggest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pitching staff is the biggest question mark. Jim Lonborg, who had a 22-9 record last year, is out of the line-up with a knee injury at least until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Erratic Pitching Hampers Bosox In Shaky Spring | 3/26/1968 | See Source »

...only real excitement of the season was long past. That had come five weeks earlier, in a crowded, noisy IAB, when 1600 people watched McClung and Sedlacek destroy a legend, and pull off the biggest upset in Harvard's 67-year basketball history...

Author: By Andrew Jamison, | Title: The History Of Harvard Sports | 3/26/1968 | See Source »

...current rate of $400 million a year. If they get formal stockholder approval, last week's moves for Moore & McCormack (1967 sales: $100 million) and Allis-Chalmers ($822 million) will propel City to sales of some $1.3 billion a year-ranking it among the nation's 50 biggest corporations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers: Rookie of the Week | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...this represents a dramatic shift in City's sights. Run since 1943 by Robert W. Dowling, son of the founder and the company's biggest (8%) shareholder, City had traditionally handled its properties as much with a sense of proprietary pride as for profit. Himself one of the nation's most highly regarded real estate planners, Dowling won fame for his design of Philadelphia's pioneering downtown Penn Center project. He also put City deep into such investments as Sterling Forest, a 30-sq.-mi. sylvan tract 40 miles from Manhattan being developed for corporate research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers: Rookie of the Week | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...formed a flying service to compete with Wien and others. After taking over some smaller operators, Petersen renamed his operation Northern Consolidated Airlines, an impressive title for a ragtag conglomeration of hard-drinking pilots and overworked aircraft. Petersen, who will be chairman of the new company, recalls that the biggest toll of pilots was not taken by crashes, but by alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Out of the Bush | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

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