Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would have to pay the cost himself. He won the bet. He reckons that his Comet can cut the New York-to-London run to six hours, make the round-trip possible in one day. As a result of such enterprise, Sir Geoffrey last week was getting a big share of Britain's aircraft export orders (?18.5 million for 1949's first half, a 48% increase over the 1948 rate). He already has orders from the British government and British Overseas Airways Corp. for 16 Comets, and is hard after U.S. orders, promising delivery...
...addition, Britain has just finished the big, experimental 60-passenger turboprop, the Handley Page Hermes V, and is completing the giant Saunders-Roe Princess, a lo-engined turbo-prop flying boat designed to carry 105 passengers transocean to South America...
...world of commodity markets, where millions of eggs are traded every day, few traders had time for onions. Not until 1942 was the onion even listed on Chicago's big, bustling Mercantile Exchange, and there was so little interest (a mere 600 carlots traded v. 19,000 carlots of eggs) that it was subsequently dropped...
Next week it will be the big companies' turn to watch the gasaterias squirm. Under a new California law, the self-service stations may no longer advertise their "5? a gallon discount" unless their huge signs include, "in letters of equal size," the total price per gallon and brand name' of their gasoline...
...facts and concise, West Point English of General Dwight Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe. But Hap Arnold's military life spans the whole life of military aviation, and no one now living can speak with more authority about the growth of air power. Global Mission is a big, gabby book, easygoing and easy to read. For any reader trying to assemble the rounded story of World War II, it is one of the very few essential books written so far. For any student of aviation it is a clear must...