Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the side, now from the back. Glass smashed and tinkled, neighborhood women screamed, bullets hummed and a reckless crowd of 10,000 people began jamming into the street. New police reinforcements arrived, among them the force's top brass. Fire trucks rumbled into the street and turned huge searchlights on Craig's bullet-riddled fortress...
...Dalmatian stonecutter Marinus arrived on the rocky slopes of Mount Titano, in central Italy, drove out the fat brown bears who inhabited the mountain, and founded the republic now known as San Marino. To lead a counterattack against Marinus, the story goes, the ursine exiles selected a huge black bear, who was actually Satan in disguise. Marinus lured the devil bear to the edge of a precipice and thrust a wooden cross in his face. The evil one went up in sulphurous smoke...
Last week, 8,000 Chicagoans crowded under Ravinia's huge tent awning (once a B-29 hangar; Ravinia's wooden pavilion burned down last May) to hear the result of all the cooking and testing...
Stalks & Stills. At harvest time, Gehring's tractors slash their sickle bars through the 30-inch mint stalks with machine-gun speed. At the "still," the workers tramp the leaves down, 1½ tons at a time, into the huge vats. Then steam is forced through them for 45 minutes to an hour. This boils out the essential mint oils, which are condensed through water-cooled coils and then drained off. The end result is a faintly yellowish-white fluid...
...shrewd old Henry Kaiser expanded his sprawling industrial empire by leasing three huge Government aluminum processing plants. Last week, for $36 million, Kaiser's Permanente Metals Corp. took title to the plants which had cost $90 million to build. The new properties: 1) a bauxite-processing plant in Baton Rouge with an annual capacity of 500,000,000 lbs. of alumina; 2) the Mead Aluminum Reduction Plant at Mead, Wash., which refines the Baton Rouge alumina, has an annual capacity of 216,000,000 lbs. of aluminum ingots; 3) the Trentwood Rolling Mill, at Trentwood, Wash., which fabricates Mead...