Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great an industry has become the growing of grapes that its representatives last week were in Washington, buzzing hopefully about the offices of the Federal Farm Board, seeking loans to develop co-operation between producer and consumer, to eliminate waste...
...defense of Southern industrialists rose Homer Lenoir Ferguson, president of Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding Co., onetime (1919-20) president of U. S. Chamber of Commerce, employer of 7,000 non-union men, stockholder in four textile mills. Mr. Ferguson's company is one of the South's great industrial concerns. It reconditioned the Leviathan after the War, built the turbo-electric Panama-Pacific liners Virginia, California, and Pennsylvania, as well as many a vessel for the Navy. Strongwilled, strong-spoken, Mr. Ferguson declared...
Meanwhile, in the vast metropolitan necropolis, a great city's dead continued to accumulate. Some 200 coffins rested temporarily in vaults; more than 300 were placed in emergency ditches, which two steam shovels were kept busy lengthening...
Since he looked into Scribner's window, Thomas Maitland Cleland† has himself enriched many a book, has become a great designer and typographer. Last week's publication is a collection of his best work. For five years it has been in preparation by Manhattan's Pynson Printers, who fashioned it with the deliberate, careful excitement of Cellini shaping a silver vessel...
While the "49ers" were going around his plant, Inventor Edison chewed a cigar and consented to answer a questionnaire that newsmen had presented to him. To the question, "What do you think of the future of the talkies?" his answer was emphatic: "Without great improvements people will tire of them. Talking is no substitute for good acting we had in silent pictures." Then, to another query, he gave ambition, imagination, and the will to work as the key to success...