Word: huges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clear summer night in Texas the moon hangs like a huge orange Chinese lantern; the stars sit like fat, cool diamonds on a sky of jewelers' plush; the earth is silent with the windless quiet of a thousand miles of sleeping land...
...there much doubt that the great majority of Swedes firmly seconded Mr. Sandler's ideas. At monster rallies all over Sweden, huge collections were taken up for the Finnish cause. Women threw their jewels, men emptied their wallets into big barrels. At Stockholm's Finnish Legation, large gifts poured in. At least one Swedish physician turned a sizable fee over to Finland. Socialist Chairman Frederick Strom of the Stockholm City Council was cheered far & wide when he suggested that every Swede give one day's income...
...crews slid into the two heavy turrets fore and aft and dogged the traps after them. The huge barrels nodded as if eager to belch. Lines of fire hose were dragged out on deck and left sputtering into the waterways. The decks emptied...
...Thomas Crowley, since 1934 chairman of FDIC. He hired Mr. Crowley through Washington's No. i Big Money employment office, Jesse Jones's RFC, the same office which placed Mr. Crowley's FDIC predecessor, Jones Protege Walter Cummings (TIME, Nov. 27), who heads Chicago's huge Continental Illinois Bank...
...largest increase over the shortest period in U. S. history. Phrases like "this augurs well" cropped up in more than one of the evening's speeches. But to thoughtful men among them, the carloading boom was an ugly fact to face. For it demonstrated that their huge industry cannot make a respectable profit even when business is booming...