Word: gargantuanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capitol Hill last week went the draft of a bill to put the Army's gargantuan $3,000,000,000 construction program into more competent hands. The bill did not say that. It proposed simply to take Army construction away from the Quartermaster Corps and turn it over to the Corps of Engineers...
...requirements are gargantuan. To get 13,000,000,000 more pounds of milk dairy cows will have to be fed 100,000,000 more bushels of corn and feed grains than ever before...
Because Texas is so big, the MARCH OF TIME marched 18,000 miles and used up almost 60,000 feet of film (a record) for its current feature, Thumbs Up, Texas I Result: a corking good film of twangy Texans and their gargantuan State going all out for armament...
...endless picaresque costume novels that sprang from the huge success of Anthony Adverse (1,224 pages) and Gone With the Wind (1,037 pages), this one has two distinctions. It is one of the longest (1,176 pages) and it is Viking's first gamble with this gargantuan species. Being in other respects no better and no worse than other imitators, it spreads sail before some of the steadiest book-trade-winds that blow...
...mechanical buzz saw. The old hell-roaring, ripsnorting days of Jigger Jones (the Maine woodsman who could kick the knots off a spruce log with his bare feet), of loggers who slept with their axes and gouged out each other's eyes, would soon be gone forever. The Gargantuan legend of Paul Bunyan was more legendary than ever...