Word: gargantuanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked something like a burlesque Irishman, could not find a second trumpet player. But with a dauntless lack of finesse the Philharmonic gave its first program in the gaslit Apollo Rooms on Lower Broadway: Beethoven's Fifth (V for Victory) Symphony, Weber's Oberon Overture and a Gargantuan assortment of operatic arias sung by a lady named Madame Otto. To finance his first season, Ureli Corelli Hill persuaded each man in the orchestra to chip in $25. Profits, at the end of the season, were to be divided equally. When the time came, Ureli Corelli Hill learned what...
Almost as casually as it would ship a tanker full of aviation gasoline or a freighter full of strategic materials, the U.S. Government is now shipping to its allies entire plants to manufacture the goods on the spot. Though that may sound like a Gargantuan job for the overburdened U.S. Merchant Marine, actually such shipments can often save both space and time in the long run. Last week's news of factories being knocked down for shipment to the United Nations...
Paradox is that these results were palatable to New Dealers and conservatives alike. New Dealers could cheer on the theory that less public spending by the States may mean more ultimate power to gargantuan Washington. But conservatives figured that if people have tired of fancy State expenditures, they may one day turn on Washington also...
...gargantuan a wartime phenomenon as the West Coast shipyards is their union: the alphabetically unpronounceable International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders, Welders & Helpers of America. Almost overnight World War II has made it one of the largest, probably the richest, certainly the most glamorous union en the war-busy West Coast...
Steel is almost as bad as copper and zinc. When WPB made its allocations for the third quarter of this year, it was able to meet only 85% of the demand for plates and less than that for shapes and rails. More than 50% of the U.S.'s gargantuan steel output is now going into direct military uses. Just over 25% is going into Lend-Lease shipments and new plant construction. The rest is being chewed up by repairs and maintenance, plus essential civilian consumption...