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Word: bigs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressman James Van Vandt, Pennsylvania, a Navy man himself, and aired before an investigating committee this summer. Most of its charges were neatly shot down by the B-36 men. And the Navy found that its operating budget was squeezing things to a point where some of the big Naval Shipyards; essential to the fleet's war mobilization plans, would have to close up shop...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: BRASS TRACKS | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

...Great Britain, armed with last month's $4.03 to $2.80 devaluation of the pound, resumed her fight to wipe out her dollar deficit and thus get back on her feet economically. University economists found themselves in general agreement this week that devaluation should prove a big stimulus to recovery and that there isn't much Soviet Russia can do about...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Faculty Experts Applaud Devaluation | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

...Big Grab. Dannie Heineman, whose friends and associates include such bigwigs as Herbert Hoover, Spain's Duke of Alba and Britain's Viscount Swinton, prevailed upon Belgium and Canada to protest March's actions. Franco, who had praised March for his "audacious nationalism," brushed them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Second Battle of the Ebro | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Unlike the egg and potato surpluses, which have been problems for years, the flaxseed surplus is a new monster of the department's own making. U.S. paint manufacturers, big users of linseed oil (crushed from flaxseed), were being gouged by Argentine suppliers at the end of World War II. So the department encouraged domestic production by pegging the price of flaxseed at $6 a bushel. The encouraged farmers raised so much flaxseed that the market collapsed. CCC loss to date on flaxseed and linseed oil: $73 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Wild Harvest | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...order to give big vehicles the most possible space in which to make this turn, a new stoplight will be installed in front of the Harvard Trust which will halt traffic coming into the Square from the Littaur end of Mass Avenue. Other stoplights will be located in front of the Varsity Liquor store and in back of Lehman Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Torn Up By Work Started On Light System | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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