Word: gargantuans
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...suggested the repeal of the corporate income tax as the initial step toward this end. "The only fair deal," he went on, "is a fair deal that allows the business man to do his job and reap his reward. I am not half as afraid of the gargantuan business as I am of the gargantuan state. You can quit General Motors but you can't quit a public health plan or compulsory education...
There was more to the argument over high profits than that. To step up production to meet the gargantuan demand, industry had expanded its plants to the tune of $18.7 billion during the year. Much of the expansion had been bought with profits and reserves, because there was a grave shortage of risk capital to finance it. As Jersey Standard's Gene Holman said: "Without our high profits we couldn't have expanded the way we did." The oil industry, which had rolled up the "biggest profits of any industry ($2 billion), was a classic example...
...might not be a bad idea. A Cabinet of gargantuan size would force the soothsayers out into the open, and the public could select those with genuine imaginative powers from the common herd of predictors. As it is, almost every seer is compelled to inflict the same old ordinary palaver on his audience. Few variations are possible--such as suggesting Eisenhower for Secretary of Agriculture instead of Defense--and these have been nearly exhausted by now. So have the prophets; and, it is fervently to be hoped, the public will get a little tired...
Died. General Feng Yu-hsiang, 67, China's gargantuan (6 ft. 4 in., 270 lbs.) "Christian General," as he was sailing back to China "to help overthrow" Chiang Kaishek; in a fire aboard the Russian motorship Pobeda, in the Black Sea. An up-from-the-ranks peasant soldier, Feng participated in Dr. Sun Yat-sen's 1911 coup against the Manchus, reputedly baptized his troops with a garden hose after he became a Methodist in 1913. His quick-change loyalties led him to support and then betray Chiang at least four times...
...Gargantuan Thirst. Only one present type of airplane, the fast, short-range fighter, is well adapted to the jet engine, whose great failing is its gargantuan thirst for fuel. Consumption varies with speed, altitude and other factors, but a fair figure for the big jets flying at low altitudes is 1,000 gallons of kerosene an hour. This means one gallon every 3.6 seconds. Fighters and interceptors justify this drain, but for bombers and commercial airliners, jet engines still use too much fuel...