Word: brobdingnagianized
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...Reyburn home in Bonham is a big white house with twelve rooms, four 20-ft. white columns in front, four sleeping porches, 14 rocking chairs and almost as many couches, and a Brobdingnagian butane gas stove in the kitchen. The farm has 150 acres; there are 208 more acres on a neighboring farm, and 917 on the Rayburn cattle ranch 13 miles away. Sam's brothers, Tom and Jim, run the farm and ranch; his sister Lucinda, known to all as Miss Lou, is the mistress of the house...
...world's largest paint-spray booth is now abuilding at the Glenn L. Martin aircraft plant at Baltimore. The Brobdingnagian booth (152 ft. long, 100 ft. wide, 32 ft. high) will be roomy enough to accommodate any U.S. warplane (except the B19) whole or in parts. Movable partitions provide from one to eight sections for painting small planes and subassemblies. To protect workmen against spray vapors and reduce fire hazard, each compartment is equipped with a curtain of water through which air is drawn by huge fans. When all sections are operating, every minute 3,200 gal. of water...
...before a single new passenger car could be turned out. This would be bad enough for car-hungry customers; but it would amount to nine months of starvation or the dole for the 2,000,000-odd people who normally supply, produce, sell and repair automobiles. Against such a Brobdingnagian reconstruction problem the immediate question of who was to stand the loss if a $4,000 machine is melted down for $40 worth of scrap seems Lilliputian, but this could give WPB a very bad time too-as WPB well knows...
Like awed Lilliputians entering a Brobdingnagian labyrinth, the House Ways & Means Committee this week faced the job of converting half of U.S. industrial manpower, horsepower, purchasing power to war, without wrecking the other half. The means: taxes, of which the Treasury offered a plan to raise another $8 billions (see p. 75), and borrowing...
...replace the old, merely enormous, daily outmoded scheme of defense and supplies to U.S. Allies, the President readied a Brobdingnagian new program: to turn out by 1944, 125,000 airplanes, tens of thousands of tanks and guns of all kinds (cost: more than $100,000,000,000)-to double not merely present production but plans for future production. The brave new word for the scheme, the Victory Program. > The President declared that real aid to Hitler's enemies is really on the way: shipments of Lend-Lease supplies in September amounted to $155,000,000-no more than...