Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There had always been a case against the supercarrier on grounds of economy. Big enough (1,090 ft.) and roomy enough to be a base for 120 fighters or 24 medium-range bombers, the flush-decked United States had been blueprinted at $124 million. By last week, however, rising costs had boosted the Navy's own estimate to $188 million. Other estimates put the eventual cost at more than $500 million for the ship and the planes it would carry...
Movable Airfield. But the real argument against the big carrier had sprung from the turbulent Navy-Air Force scramble over wartime missions. The United States was the Navy's bid for a chance at the Air Force's strategic bombing role. Flourishing figures from World War II, the Navy claimed that attack carriers were not only the best way of bringing air power to bear at sea; as a movable, hit-&-run base, the supercarrier would be able to launch a surprise attack with atom bombs against any target anywhere...
Lawrence was not too worried about that. The patient seemed to be feeling a little better already: the fall orders were coming in, and one big mill had started a double shift two days a week...
Judge Willie Bob took a daring step: he organized a county police force to compete with the sheriff's office. Big, mean, 29-year-old Ambrose Metcalfe, who had served as a sergeant in an armored division during World War II, became its captain. He swaggered out to "throw the fear of God" into Harlan County...
Last weekend 2,000 delighted people gathered to watch the best part of all-a high-speed painting job donated by 96 A.F.L. painters. Scaffolding was rigged to give each man just 16 square feet of space to cover. A big timing clock was set up. Bob Hoelzle and his bride-to-be, a pretty telephone operator named Frances Noll, were stationed at a vantage point in the front yard. Then the mayor started the proceedings by firing a pistol...