Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Respect arose from United's prominence in U. S. aircraft, for United is among the four most potent interlocked air organizations, is closely integrated with Manhattan's huge National City Bank of which Frederick Rentschler's elder brother Gordon Sohn Rentschler was elected President a fortnight ago (TIME, April...
...south of the California boundary, Shell Petroleum, each have similar de luxe Fokkers. Fokker is building five $100,000, 32-passenger, four-motor transports for the Universal Air Lines system. Those will be the largest, most expensive standard ships ever built in the U. S. The Keystone Patrician, too huge to fit into Detroit's Convention Hall, after making a 25,000-mile circuit of the country without a difficulty, costs almost the same amount...
Hitherto it had proved impossible to gain general acceptance of any definite figure in respect to any of the huge sums involved. But the Young Memorandum, secret, was understood to lay down as fixed beyond all need of further dickering this principle: Germany will pay the Allies not less than the total they owe the United States in War debts-namely...
...master of the largest private army in the world (see p. 30), and that the strong militarist clique in Canton had definitely sided against the Nationalist Government. How Canton was brought suddenly to heel last week by President Chiang will not soon be known with certainty; but quite possibly huge bribes turned the trick, as they often do in China, for it is known that the Treasury was abruptly tapped by the President for $5,000,000 cash...
Like the oilmen, the silkmen desire a limitation of production agreement. Last year a monthly average of 94.5% of all broad looms were in operation. Huge surpluses of finished silk are stacking up in warehouses. Buyers are holding back, waiting for a price break. Like the oilmen, the silkmen need Government acquiescence in an agreement. But the government, much though it might like to, is too tangled up with anti-trust legislation to help or acquiesce in either oil or silk plans (see National Affairs...