Word: gargantuans
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...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...
...girdled the globe, run off a great flight in the Army's biggest plane (Boeing B15) with a gargantuan load of medical supplies for quake-stricken Chile. Yet Caleb Haynes is no chair polisher. He, too, rode out in front in every show he could make...
...Crimson's biggest threat was squelched by the nimble antics of Brown's gargantuan catcher, Fidler, who added this insult to the injury already done when he carried the game-winning tally over the plate in the third round...
...graduate of Oberlin College. Two years of intensive study in the history of Far Eastern languages won him a Fellowship from the Harvard Yenching Institute, and the opportunity for further research in Paris, Tokyo, and Peking. It was during this period that he accumulated the bulk of his truly gargantuan store of knowledge, not of Far Eastern history alone, but also of the dark and tortuous workings of the Oriental mind. At the same time, the student of history had a unique opportunity of watching history in the making. Already the clouds of war were breaking over the Far East...