Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deal gave Grosset and Curtis, already teamed up in the distribution of Bantam Books (25?), a new punch to throw at their big competitors, Marshall Field's Simon & Schuster (which puts out the 25? Golden Books for children) and his Pocket Books...
Died. William H. Luden, 90, whose modest homemade candymaking boomed into big business when, in 1900, he mixed a menthol formula into his candy and made the first menthol cough drop (he sold out 27 years later for $6,500,000); of a heart attack; in Atlantic City...
What went wrong in China? The CRIMSON said we backed the wrong people, the big bad "warlords and bankers," whose utter inefficiency and lack of morale spelled defeat...
...plane, which has been successfully tested, can also cruise as low as 27 miles an hour and makes less noise than an automobile. It looks like a conventional craft in every respect but the wings, which have slots in front and a big flap in back...
This year the Chemistry Department departed from a University-wide tradition of indifference to section teaching by offering eleven prizes to the men who rate highest on a poll conducted among the members of the six big undergraduate chemistry courses. The poll, devised by Professor Kistiakowsky, chairman of the department, questions students as to the personality and scientific ability of their section man as well as to the time they think he contributes to teaching. The prizes, each amounting to slightly under a hundred dollars, will come from a fund given by a Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers...