Word: huges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reason for the 1938 program and its attendant complexities was that cotton farmers last year cultivated 34,471,000 acres, grew the huge total of 18,945,022 bales, had to fall back on Government loans, wound up with a carry-over sufficient to depress this year's prices. So Mr. Wallace invoked the powers-granted him in the new AAA, instituted drastic control, got a majority of farmers to approve by referendum. Last week Mr. Wallace's analysts announced the result: a cultivated acreage of 26,904,000, lower than any since the Department of Agriculture began...
...Eastbound from Missoula, a huge Northern Pacific freight locomotive, with 75 cars behind and a hundred hoboes riding, blew up in Hell Gate Canyon with the mightiest roar Montana has heard since Paul Bunyan passed by. Dead when help came were the engineer, the fireman, the brakeman, two hoboes. So shattered was the engine that railway officials despaired of determining just what had happened. But in the Northern Pacific offices at Philadelphia, 2,000 miles away, there had lain for weeks a document containing a fantastically possible answer: two typewritten pages reporting a conversation overheard on the Camden-Philadelphia ferry...
...Compton, like practically all of his colleagues, still believes the rays to be particles. The retraction he made last week concerned their place of origin. He once believed they came from the remotest depths of space beyond the Milky Way, which is the huge galaxy of stars to which the sun and its planets inconspicuously belong. The disc-shaped Milky Way appears to be slowly rotating like an enormous wheel. Therefore, if the rays come from outside the galaxy, whichever side of Earth happens to be facing the direction of rotation should receive a few more rays than the back...
...United could, of course, sell its securities now, but at the high values at which it is now carrying them on its books this would mean huge paper losses which would have to be charged against surplus, preventing payment of dividends...
...Steel was strong enough to take huge losses now, many a smaller steel company was not. Last week, with production at 28% of capacity, after a series of secret talks with John L. Lewis, Big Steel finally about-faced, announced reductions of 5% to 7% on important products without cutting wages...