Word: gargantuanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conference might be criticized for its failure to indicate specifically the Gargantuan size of the job ahead, and to specify ways & means of accomplishing...
Mandolin to Management. Salmaggi's methods of financing are a mystery even to his closest associates. He has made enough money to own a huge 19-room villa in Brooklyn, where his wife cooks gargantuan spaghetti dinners for the 300 relatives of the Salmaggi family who visit in droves of 40 or 50 at a time. An imposing 6-ft. figure, Salmaggi stalks Manhattan's streets in spats., a hat two feet in diameter, sporting a glittering diamond-studded lapel pin and a silver-headed cane that once belonged to Caruso. But in 1932 Impresarío Salmaggi...
Also important in the magnesium boom is the electrolytic process of Basic Magnesium's gargantuan plant near Las Vegas, Nev. This method was originated in Germany by I. G. Farbenindustrie and also successfully used in England. Magnesite (the carbonate), plentiful and high in metal content, is calcined, then converted to the chloride from which the metal is reduced electrolytically. Now operated for the Government, the plant has been shipping magnesium since August...
...this week, when Franklin Roosevelt submitted the most gargantuan budget in history to the U.S. Congress, the nation had been subjected to a baffling barrage of billions-of-dollars-for-war. What did the billions really mean in terms of war production...
...leave. Soon she and Oliver may commence a new weekly radio show which will enlist other American showfolk justly beloved of Britons : Frances Day, top-money musicomedy star who graduated from the Texas Guinan night club chorus; Ziegfeld Follies alumna Dorothy Dickson, Actress Claire (Gay Divorce) Luce, Greta Nissen, gargantuan Xylophonist Teddy Brown, and freckle-spattered dramatic Comedienne Constance Cummings...