Word: huges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the President of the U. S. told White House correspondents that he could think of only three ways to get rid of the nation's cotton mountain. He could burn it in a huge bonfire. He could float it into the Gulf of Mexico and sink it-no fantastic dream, for Brazil, weighted down by a similar mountain of coffee, tried both...
Walter Reuther, a canny little ex-Socialist who controls U. A. W.'s huge West Side Local in Detroit, had fathered a plan to abolish dissension by abolishing four of the five vice-presidencies, leaving one for himself. Messrs. Murray & Hillman got the convention to adopt a more complete cure: do away entirely with vice presidents...
Social Security having paid out only $11,000,000 on old-age benefits (to Dec. 31 last) is rapidly piling up a huge reserve. By 1980, as the act now reads, the reserve would amount to $47,000,000,000 (about seven times the amount of money now circulating...
...natural fortress of boulders and timber, near Clark's Fork Canyon 30 miles northwest of Cody, Wyo., Earl Durand, 26, the huge, hairy "true woodsman" who broke jail in Cody last fortnight and shot down two pursuing peace officers (TIME, March 27), lay waiting and watching one day last week. They had sentenced him to six months in jail for shooting a bull elk out of season, threatened him with ten years more for killing a beef cow. Now they wanted him for double murder. A posse of peace officers under Sheriff Frank Blackburn was down below, coming...
There are some 10,000 private fliers in the U. S. and in the four years from 1934 to 1938 there were 690 fatal accidents in U. S. private and miscellaneous flying. But diligent CAA is determined that these totals shall not be increased in proportion to the huge annual increment in amateur fliers for which it will be responsible. Last week it had small-plane manufacturers working on one of the measures it expects the flying industry to take to keep fatalities from reaching a truly appalling figure...