Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HELD UP TO RIDICULE AN ACCOMPLISHED SCHOLAR AND A REFINED GENTLEMAN, THE PRESIDENT OF LEBANON. YOUR SLURRIOUS REMARKS ARE NOT LESS OBVIOUS BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE SUBTLE. BECAUSE WE DON'T CONTROL VOTES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES NOR DO WE VICTIMIZE THE FANATIC AND THE GULLIBLE TO RAISE HUGE FUNDS . . . WE CAN NEITHER HALT YOUR CLEVER SLANDER NOR HOPE TO CONVERT YOU TO THE SIDE OF THE TRUTH, AND THEREFORE THERE ONLY REMAINS FOR US TO PRAY FOR THE SALVATION OF YOUR SOUL IF IT CAN BE CALLED A SOUL, THIS MASS OF VENOM THAT FILLS YOUR BLACK HEART...
...comment. In California, Bob Kenny tried to laugh it off. Said he: "I imagine Vishinsky is responsible for my inclusion. I saw him frequently at Lake Success and we remarked that we were both in the same business." In case anyone had forgotten Vishinsky's part in the huge Communist purges of the '303, Kenny explained: "Vishinsky is also a former prosecutor...
...Navy's blimps in action. For weeks, he painted nothing but blimps: in hangars, on submarine patrol, against the sunset. Standard Oil (N.J.) flew him to Venezuela to paint oil wells. The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad put him on a private car ("You should have seen those huge bedrooms, with big brass beds in them") to picture the West Virginia countryside...
Automakers Henry J. Kaiser and Joseph W. Frazer had "news which no corporation likes to bring to its stock holders." They were dead right. The news was that Kaiser-Frazer Corp. had lost $19,284,680.83 in 1946. The loss was huge. But K-F said it was not quite as bad as it looked. For one thing, K-F had written off in one year the cash it had spent for engineering, design, and preparation for auto production. How much this was K-F did not say. Ordinarily auto companies spread these costs over a longer period...
...progenitor, to the average expatriate, of "the stenographic, Pullman-smoker school of writing"-visited Montparnasse and sat himself down at a conspicuous table in one of the cafés, every expatriate eye turned icily away. "Little" magazines such as transition, Broom, Secession, and Gargoyle occupied a position of huge magnitude in the expatriate eye. Putnam tells the dismal tale of Abraham Lincoln Gillespie's wife, whom Putnam found one day close to tears. "Line and I," she explained sadly, "are separating. . . . He's made transition [and he] says I'm not his intellectual equal any more...