Word: heftier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had put the July issue to bed and were dickering with three groups of hovering angels. They wanted to raise close to $1,000,000. If they get it, they hope to restyle the cramped pages in a larger format, approximately New Yorker size, and put out a heftier, better magazine. But without new money, '48 would not become...
...Bethlehem Steel earned $14 in 1940, and $2.95 in the first quarter (after leaving room for heftier taxes), but its shares sell at 70. In World War I, Bessie was the No. 1 war bride, reached a top of 700 in 1916, 25 times profits of $28 a share...
...this kind of horse Remount pays an average $165 a head. Within those specifications it must find light riding horses (for the Philippines), riding horses (cavalry), heftier but active and fast horses for field artillery. The buyers know that some day these horses may have to travel as much as 100 miles in 24 hours, gallop a mile in three minutes...