Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poland's hour of unequal struggle with the Nazi giant seemed at hand. Poland with a bigger population (34,000,000), bigger area (150,000 sq. mi.), bigger standing Army (285,000) than Czecho-Slovakia was too big a nation to let fall into Germany's hands. So fortnight ago the British Government hastily offered a watery anti-aggression pact, but the hard-boiled Polish Government insisted on strict military guarantees with no ifs, ands or buts...
...Evanston, Ill., President Robert Donohoe of the Young Business Men's Club advertised for a "large alley cat, exceptionally powerful, and able to cope with giant sewer rats." Questioned by the Humane Society, which asked him if he was planning to put on a cat-rat fight, Mr. Donohoe explained: "It's for the jail." A cat named Sergeant...
WASHINGTON--Grave fears over the trend of Central European events brought the Administration's giant rearmament program in step nearer completion today when the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a $512,-188,882 War Department bill for the year beginning July 1, with funds for Army Air Corps expansion...
...would under any conditions send into the western Pacific tonnage greater than the total Japanese tonnage. But the chief effect of Japan's naval ambitions is to encourage qualitative rather than quantitative competition from the other powers. Example: Having heard rumors that Japan is building two giant battleships of between 40,000 and 46,000 tons, the British forthwith planned the Lion and Temeraire, each 40,000 tons, and the U. S. drew plans for two 45,000-ton battleships, most powerful in history...
...Colorado River's Boulder Dam has six giant generators which turn out 82.500 kilowatts each. Among hydroelectric turbine machines, these hold a record for power. But Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. pointed out last week that "records don't last long among water wheels." The company has started work on three generators rated at 108,000 kilowatts apiece...