Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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He called them "seadromes"- enormous floating islands of steel and concrete, to cover 100 or more acres and be anchored at intervals across the Atlantic. Brilliant searchlights would radiate from them, and to them would swoop ocean-crossing aircraft, heavy-laden with freight and passengers. In the seadromes' vitals...
Wu maintains his enormous sphere of influence over Central China as the somewhat distrusted exponent of the old and vanished Chinese aristocracy. A cunning general, he is perhaps the most suavely mannered and custom abiding militarist in a country where law and order have long since conspicuously vanished.
Drivurself. By establishing the Hertz Drivurself Corp.( subsidiary of G. M. C.'s Yellow Truck & Coach Mfg. Co.) to rent motors to the public, G. M. C. becomes an enormous (and profitmaking) consumer of its own cars and accessories. The idea deserves the $10,000,000 investment.
Book of Detroit, Last week J. B. Book Jr., began another of his enormous Detroit buildings. He already has the Book-Cadillac Hotel and the Book Building. The new one, to be called Book Tower, will be the tallest structure in the world-81 stories, 873 ft. Quaker Oats. Dropsical...
U. S. Steel is enormous-250,000 employes, $442,000,000 payroll - plants, railroads, ships. But it must be careful. Judge Gary, its nurse, its tutor, will see that it is careful.