Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite these problems, some big users of crude are about ready to go to work on shale oil on a commercial basis. Union Oil Co. of California has 14,000 acres of oil-shale lands, hopes to build a plant which will produce 200,000 barrels...
...dingy little store, slipping into bankruptcy in a Chicago suburb, quadrupled its gross to $8,000 a week when it installed new lights and smart fixtures. Window displays should be cut down or eliminated; the windows should be clear so that the whole store is one big display case...
...Alamein to the River Sangro, but its army-manual style limited its appeal chiefly to professional soldiers. A more dramatic soldier's story, important and unfortunately neglected, was Polish Lieut. General Anders' account of his army's sacrifices and betrayals, An Army in Exile. U.S. big brass, hounded by publishers and eager ghostwriters, combed memories, diaries and official records to get their stories on the record. Hard-boiled Major General Claire Chennault had a field day with U.S. blundering in China in Way of a Fighter, and General "Howlin' Mad" Smith lashed out at high-level...
...Big Fisherman, Lloyd Douglas Mary, Sholem Asch The Egyptian, Mika Waltari A Rage to Live, John O'Hara Point of No Return, John Marquand
...Big Moment. In Omaha, Judge Arthur C. Thomsen, pondering a traffic damage suit, told the jury, "A careful driver ought reasonably to anticipate some vehicles making viatic use of the road," then added, "I have been waiting two years to get a case where I could use the word 'viatic...