Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three days, Colorado's Eugene Millikin had been on his feet defending the income-tax reduction bill that his Senate Finance Committee had whipped into shape. Armed with a huge loose-leaf notebook crammed with statistics, he made his replies to colleagues' questions short, sure and pithy. He turned back Democratic efforts to postpone the tax bill, to nationalize the community-property provision of some states, to raise individual exemptions. Millikin's able defense of the bill ended in complete victory. The Senate passed it, 52 to 34, without amendment...
...everybody's mind was the memory of a 32nd: Trombonist Glenn Miller, their former leader, who was killed 2½ years ago in a plane crash over the English Channel. The band still carried around Miller's custom-made trombone. Last week crowds who jammed into the huge casino heard the familiar sweet ballad style-a clear, wan clarinet leading a throaty quartet of saxophones in the melody, backed by a powerhouse of brass-that had once made Glenn Miller the No. 1 jukebox favorite...
Died. Amedeo Obici, 69, pint-sized (5 ft. 1 in.) giant of the peanut business; of uremic poisoning; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. An Italian immigrant, Obici at the turn of the century opened a Wilkes-Barre peanut stand which eventually grew into the huge Planters Nut & Chocolate...
Next morning, under the myriad of lights within the huge dome of St. Peter's, the Swiss enjoyed every minute of what they had really come for. Bright green, gold-embroidered bonnets and halo-like veils stood out among the black headdresses of nuns. Hundreds of Swiss eyes watched anxiously to see how the Pope would receive the profusion of gifts they had brought-huge candles with Alpine scenes painted on the sides, turtledoves, canaries, singing birds...
...When the elevator door opens, you think you have arrived at a sports arena while the wrestling matches are under way. A distant roar of voices goes up and down. The roar grows stronger as you walk to the entrance of the huge six-story-high trading floor...