Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...added several days later: "Evidence is daily coming to light that the nation-wide propaganda to commit the people and their representatives in Congress to the Mellon tax bill, before all of its provisions were made known, is the result of a huge organized conspiracy on the part of the predatory interests constituting special privilege...
...virtue of article 304 of the Treaty of Versailles, 80,000 Belgians deported by the Germans during the War to Germany, where they were forced to work for their enemy, were reported to be bringing a huge collective damage suit against the German Government. The trial starts on Jan. 7, at Paris, and will be heard by the Belgo-German Mixed Arbitration Tribunal under the presidency of Paul Moriaud, head of the law faculty of Geneva University...
...wheat totaled $192 millions, and of corn $75 millions. In all the above imports, last year's figures exceeded those of 1921-22, while our wheat and corn exports were far under those of the preceding year. Pork and cotton exports showed increases, but they were counterbalanced by the huge increases in all imports...
Consumption of petroleum is slowly but unfailingly on the increase; it is therefore mainly a question of how soon the huge output of oil can be curtailed. On this phase of the question, the expert Joseph E. Pogue recently made several remarks...
...Pope, dressed in full Pontifical robes-a golden mitre upon his head, a magnificent scarlet cloak embroidered in gold over his shoulders-with the gorgeous, glittering emerald ring upon his finger, rose from his sedia, and followed by two attendants who held the resplendent Flabelli-huge ostrich feather fans-at either side of his head, made his way to the throne...