Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...makers from many irksome union restrictions and cheapening costs. Large cigar-makers are consequently planning national advertising campaigns to obtain national distribution of their products. They predict that within a few years the 5-cent cigar will once more be a staple U. S. product, of good quality and huge demand...
...While his heart turned, in his mouth, to unpalatable dough, he watched them borne from the train sheds to the plaza. Helping to carry one of them was Adjutant General Charles Cox of Georgia. They were seated in a motor. To the one whom the Adjutant had carried, a huge silver cup was handed. "Jones," yelled the people. "Watts," they yelled...
...Gandil. The Chambermen began to pay out $10,000 a month; the three unfrocked players began to win games for Douglas. Chase plays center field; Gandal is at first; Weaver at shortstop is the best of the three. Quick on his feet as a puma, he covers a huge amount of ground; his batting average is over .500; gangling cowboys ride hundreds of miles to yell at him; gamblers, preachers, saloon keepers, dance hall girls from the honkeytonk towns across the border bet their dirty money on his team; the Chambermen of Commerce are glad he lives in Douglas...
...matter of fact the hue and cry over a "bread trust" has fallen rather flat, despite Mr. Manly's | vigorous assertions. A huge number of U. S. housewives still bake their own bread, and this will always be a ready alternative to buying of an extortionate "bread trust...
...huge foreign motor car of primitive design, roaring by night through the streets of New Haven informed the inhabitants of that town, some 25 year ago, that Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt was going out for the evening. The same vehicle, roaring back through the dawn, let them know that he would be in for the day. Even at that time the press had begun to refer to him as "Reggie" and to point with horror to his unhallowed pleasures. His classmates, however, voted him "the most likely to succeed in life...