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...intended as a criticism of our writing, but only as an encyclopedic dictionary for it, the "Oxford Companion to American Literature" is the result of the gargantuan labors of one man--James D. Hart. And although he spent five years on the subject, the book is by no means stolid or ponderous. It contains many relatively obscure and unusual facts which make the book intriguing to while away a few odd minutes as well as to answer some question which arises during other reading. The following entry is typical of many...
...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...
Without construction (and maintenance of Army facilities, also headed for the Engineers) the Quartermaster Corps still has its gargantuan job of feeding and clothing an army of 1,572,000. But the loss of construction and maintenance work strikes at an equally important function. Of 7,559 officers now on Quartermaster duty 1,404 are on construction and maintenance duty...
...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...