Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advertising lineage the World-Telegram got practically all of the Evening World's. The American got the morning want ads-a juicy chunk of business. Among the others the Times seemed to show the greatest gain, the Herald Tribune, and Daily News ranking next. But the newspapers' excited advertisements in each other's pages, and the Easter trade, made all advertising figures inconclusive...
...upon the committee and Congress but also upon the public. Republican Representative Crowther declared that Mr. Young was "the only witness who showed any tinge of human interest." The Press began to headline the "Young Plan," much to the concern of Republicans who hated to see so great a chunk of political capital being passed to a Democrat. Actually Mr. Young had proposed nothing new or original. The idea of upping Bonus loans was advocated last month by Director Hines of the Veterans' Bureau as the "least undesirable" plan for aiding the jobless ex-soldiery. Chairman Johnson of the House...
...cavernous, crashing rumble and roar which made thousands of people stir in their sleep, and with a titanic splash and spuming which only a few noctambulating tourists beheld, the Niagara River did early one morning last week something that it has not done since 1850-chewed off another giant chunk of the ledge which makes Niagara Falls. The new notch in the falls' brink is about 150 ft. wide, 250 ft. deep. Geologists say that the 40,000-year-old falls will eventually be slanted back into a long series of rapids beginning near Tonawanda...
...written by Vicki Baum, staged, directed and produced (with Harry Moses) in Manhattan by Herman Shumlin. It is difficult to imagine a better translation than that which William A. Drake has made. Originally titled Menschen Inn Hotel (People in a Hotel), the play manages to grasp a large chunk of existence, thrust it into a Berlin hostelry, expose it completely. It would be easy to demonstrate how Lust, Greed, Despair, Fear, Bravery are pursued throughout 36 hours in the life of a hotel and become Love, Disgrace, Hope, Birth, Death. But that would be doing precisely what Playwright Baum...
Gifford Pinchot, Republican nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania, last week lost a large chunk of political support but none of his oldtime Rooseveltian capacity for denunciation. Charles B. Hall and Samuel Salus, potent members of the Philadelphia G. O. P. machine under Boss William Scott Vare, repudiated him to support John M. Hemphill, the Democratic Nominee. Mr. Pinchot exploded: "They're gangsters first and Republicans as a matter of convenience afterwards. . . . Hall . . . stands for everything decent voters despise and hate. His support is always a liability...