Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roles, as are other less-important actors, Unfortunately for the audience, however, the author decided to-include in his piece several juveniles of the most objectionable variety. Tortuous as it is to sit through lengthy minutes of childish mock battles and other entertaining sports, it becomes living death by comparison to endure more than two hours of little boys and girls wandering around an obviously rural setting and talking in the most Brooklyn possible of accents...
Expressed in dollar bills laid end to end, it would reach from the earth to Venus. By comparison with the past, it was $104 billion more than the U.S. had spent - in war and peace - from 1789 to 1940. In cold figures, it was what the U.S. had spent on World War II from mid-1940 up through...
Once or twice, when he was in a tight corner at committee meetings, he looked to Anthony Eden for guidance. By comparison with Eden, whetted by 19 years of disciplined British diplomacy, or with Molotov, the hardened product of ruthless revolution, Ed Stettinius seemed almost callow. But when the chips were down, he earned their respect and that of the conference...
...comparison between Pan Am's globe-girdling operations and those of the domestic airlines was misleading and shockingly unfair, said Mr. Trippe. He argued that it is impossible to compare the two because 1) traffic on Pan Am's pioneering routes is necessarily far smaller than on domestic airlines, consequently costs of carrying it are often higher and 2) Pan Am had to build and operate its own airports, navigation guides, etc. instead of having them furnished free by the Government. For example, Trippe said, Pan Am contributed $150,000 toward improving the airport at Mexico City. Later...
...committee wants the facts on whether Pan Am is doing a better job than the domestic lines, he said that it could get a true comparison from the Army's Air Transport Command. Many of its globe-girdling routes are being flown by both Pan Am and domestic lines. On these figures Juan Trippe is perfectly willing to rest his case...