Word: huges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parliament Red Room, seated in two thrones under a huge wooden crucifix, they heard Provincial Premier Maurice Duplessis read a speech of welcome in both English and French, since Canada is officially bilingual under its Constitution. When presentations began, in a room packed with Dominion officials, grand dames, colorful monsignori and sandaled monks, the first man to be presented was Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve, the spiritual head of 89% of Quebec's people. The Cardinal gave the King's hand a lingering, fatherly patting...
...American Way. Huge, many-throated rendition of The Stars & Stripes Forever (TIME...
...Glenn L. Martin Co. was in Cleveland and its president had virtually quit flying. From that plant came the first Martin bomber, a huge, two-engined biplane. Built too late to get into the War, the first Martin bomber went to the Air Service. A great cranelike thing that drifted in stodgily to its landings, it was the standard bombardment plane of the service until the middle...
...innovation of the year is the use of Memorial Hall, which is much larger than the always crowded Union, where the affair used to be held, Decorated so that it no longer has the appearance of an examination hall or a college commons by a crew of volunteers, the huge, high-vaulted hall is festooned with streamers and pennants hiding the tapestries, busts, and stained-glass windows...
...morphology," he says he wishes he could get the oil business out of his head for a minute. He is director of Creole Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey with properties in Venezuela. He is also (since a year ago) prince and president of the huge landlording enterprise of Rockefeller Center. Nelson's actual function in both offices is under reasonable public suspicion, but it is, increasingly, that of director and president indeed...