Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer called merely-or mainly-for a railroad operating man. Canada's most imposing example of government-operated business had become too big for that. Since C.N.R. was formed in 1923 out of the ruins of five separate lines, it has grown into a $2.4 billion empire which operates 24,178 miles of main track, twelve hotels, three steamship lines, an airline (TransCanada) and a nationwide telegraph service. It has become Canada's biggest employer (some 111,000). In recent years, C.N.R. has earned money on its operations, but, except for the war years, has seldom shown...
Gordon's first big public job was to set up a foreign-exchange control system at the beginning of World War II. He did so well that the government borrowed him for the much tougher job of running the Wartime Prices and Trade Board...
...seen the Princeton buildings. They appeal to me"). He ordered a huge chapel with 77 stained-glass windows, a 50-bell carillon, and a tower modeled after one at Canterbury. He wanted schools of medicine, law and divinity. He planned a hospital with 416 beds, a stadium big enough for 35,000 spectators, a student union complete with the latest potato-peeling and dish-washing machines...
Horace Grenell is a square-rigged man of 40 who has built a big business out of making records for little people...
...big reason for his success is the quality of his recording artists. To play The Wonderful Violin he got the NBC Symphony Orchestra's Concertmaster Mischa Mischakoff. Another reason: the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony and the Dallas Symphony, among others, have found Y.P.R.-commissioned scores (e.g., Alex North's The Waltzing Elephant, Walter Hendl's Little Brass Band, Douglas Moore's The Emperor's New Clothes) good enough for their concert programs...