Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harassed Subscription Department took on the huge job of setting up and maintaining an alphabetical, as well as a geographical file for our military subscribers. That way, presumably, we could find their addresses whether they were on duty in this country or overseas, en route, or back home...
...than two years ago Mrs. Lottie Wolf, wife of Detroit's wiping-rag tycoon, hired Lipiec to build up a stable, gave him his big chance. The best way to get ready-to-run horseflesh in a hurry was to buy it on the race track's huge super-market-the claiming race...
When Swedish Scientist Berzelius in 1828 named his newly discovered element thorium-after Thor, god of thunder-the choice was perhaps more portentous than Berzelius guessed. Last week in Ottawa, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King told the House of Commons that Canada's huge atomic-energy project at Chalk River, Ont. is exploring the use of thorium as a source of atomic energy. This was the first public hint of large-scale atomic experiments with elements other than uranium...
...conveyor belts in the bare building, move in acres of machine tools, erect long assembly lines. He has also taken on a job which some auto companies prefer to leave to outsiders, the highly specialized job of making his own bodies. It will be some two months before the huge presses to stamp them out are in the plant. Outside of this, Hunt will have to depend almost entirely on outside suppliers for his parts-motors from Continental Motors Corp., wheels from Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co., etc.-whereas most other automakers turn out a good share of their parts themselves...
Priestley (who has just returned from Moscow, where his new play, An Inspector Calls, is running in two theaters simultaneously) plainly tells whom he considers fools and rogues. They are "the tough fellows behind the huge . . . cartels," the "Lords Midas" of the press, "literary ladies and gents who adore peasants," "the aesthete with his private income . . . bloodless and shrinking." Veterans are also plainly told that in eschewing hominess they must stand four-square behind state-planned economy (". . . I do not believe in economic liberty. . . . Economic life is necessarily a communal life...