Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...1920s he moved into state politics, fought one last struggle for political power against huge and ruthless Luke Lea, publisher of the Nashville Tennessean, won, and then controlled the state...
...huge elevator at bleak, ice-locked Churchill on Hudson Bay has hoarded 1,800,000 bushels of prairie wheat since 1939 (18% of what the U.S. dark-bread-&-smaller-loaf campaign expects to save for Europe). For the first time since war's outbreak nipped off commercial traffic, six British ships this summer will dock at Churchill in ice-free August and September to pick up the wheat. The $13,263,000 port, with its $32,638,000 rail link to The Pas, Manitoba, was built to save the prairies 1,000 miles on the water haul of wheat...
Brothers Wallace and Martin Platt, Longchamps bookkeeper and office manager, not only pleaded guilty but turned Government witnesses. Wallace Platt took the stand to tell exactly how the huge job of cheating had been done. Said he: Longchamps kept two sets of books, juggled one set by understating sales and overstating purchases, used the faked figures in filing 1940-44 tax returns, siphoned the money, along with tips taken from hat-check girls, into a safety deposit...
Silver flowed into the Treasury's vaults until by 1942 they held a huge, stagnant reservoir of 98,800 short tons. Results: As the world silver price climbed, China went off the silver standard; other nations reduced the amount of silver in their coins. Silver sellers the world over had a long and profitable ride, paid for by the U.S. taxpayer...
Wealth & Worship. "The interconnection," says Orwell, "between sadism, masochism, success-worship, power-worship, nationalism and totalitarianism is a huge subject whose edges have barely been scratched...