Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With 61 years of virtually unbroken success, the old hotel has played host to many distinguished persons, including Presidents Grant, Garfield, and Arthur. Among the huge parties given there was the 70th birthday celebration of the poet Whittier...
...Matter of Timing. Superficially, nationalization of Britain's steel looked easy,, A few big firms employed most of the half million workers. But those firms had grown into huge vertical combines, in which it would be difficult to divorce ownership of vast iron-ore mines, limestone quarries, brickworks, diesel-engine works, nut-&-bolt plants. Just what parts of the steel industry did Wilmot propose to nationalize...
About to be devoured by coal-hungry Government steam-shovels were the last vestiges of lawn and garden surrounding Wentworth Woodhouse, the huge, 200-year-old, Yorkshire family seat of the Earls Fitzwilliam...
When the "huge, dropsical monster" known as the Associated Gas & Electric System was finally driven into reorganization proceedings in 1940, 40% of its billion-dollar bulk turned out to be bookkeeping water. Last week, as the fabulous reorganization was ended, more water was struck. Manhattan's Federal Judge Vincent L. Leibell angrily said that fees asked by 72 lawyers and assorted utilities experts for the five-year job of dehydrating the monster were themselves heavily watered...
Obsessing Images. With a huge retrospective show, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week crowned Chagall as one of the most important living painters. Said James Johnson Sweeney, Director of the Museum's painting department: "Our debt is to an artist who has brought poetry back into painting...