Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most famed for its citrus fruits, Florida has other great growths. It ranks with the Carolinas as a lumber State, not far behind piney Georgia, whose output is more than a billion board-feet per annum. And, though few people know it, huge herds of beef cattle range the plains of Florida's northern interior. Many a Texas steer, like many a tired tycoon, goes to Florida...
...sahibs take their aristocratic air of an evening. Actually anxious talk buzzed all up and down the English clubs and offices in Calcutta's busy Chawringhee. It was surely no good sign when the 6,000 delegates and their more than 11,000 sympathizers proceeded to burn huge piles of Made-in-England goods before sitting to business. Presiding hysterically over the bonfire, Pandit Nehru cried: "Hail, soldiers of Swaraj [Self-Determination]! Let your shouts ring out when I unfurl our banner (hoisting it). Soon strikes the hour of supreme sacrifice for our Motherland...
Milan, neither seaport nor lake town, viewed with alarm increasing numbers of commercial hydroplanes which dotted the sky above the city, but never descended. Enterprising Milanese therefore chose to build an artificial lake where seaplanes may alight. Surrounding will be hangars, offices, hotels. But already, like a huge glittering coffin, the oblong water field waits for hydroplanes...
Capitalizations of $100,000,000 may represent huge companies in British steel, but U. S. citizens point to the "billion dollar" U. S. Steel Corp. as the real standard of steel magnitude. Whether because of its association with such names as Carnegie...
...Swedish Match Co., Ltd., a $270,000,000 concern, which not only sells matches but also makes huge loans to needy governments...