Word: huges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hometown of the late Pen-&-Inkman Frank D. Waterman, the late Sculptor George Grey Barnard, Cinemactor Fred MacMurray. Purring contentedly in a crook in the Kankakee River 56 miles south of Chicago, it is proud of its humming industries (overalls, silk stockings, furniture, farm implements), is famed for its huge State insane asylum. Last week Kankakee purred so loudly that the whole nation heard...
...additions to our national wealth, additions resulting from public expenditures that are based upon increase of public debt, more 'wasteful' than the expenditures in the late twenties, based upon private debt, whereby billions of dollars were diverted to uncollectable foreign loans and to build at inflated prices huge skyscrapers, office buildings and apartment houses, many of which have never been sufficiently occupied to maintain the investment...
...This year will be the biggest in naval construction since 1919. Every naval power is building huge battleships, talked of not long ago as obsolete because of the advance of the airplane...
...failures. Called to power as Chancellor of the Third Reich on January 30, 1933 by aged, senile President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor Hitler began to turn the Reich inside out. Unemployment was solved by: 1) a far-reaching program of public works; 2) an intense rearmament program, including a huge standing army; 3) enforced labor in the service of the State (the German Labor Corps); 4) putting political enemies and Jewish, Communist and Socialist jobholders in concentration camps...
Although Dow Chemical has branches elsewhere, the root of its business is still in Midland, Mich., where in 1890 Founder Herbert Dow, two years out of Case School of Applied Science, first set up shop. There plumbing 1,200 feet to a huge salt pool, he began refining the brine into everything from patented laxatives to synthetic indigo dyes...