Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, the Lowell Christmas dinner and play were planned to coincide with the birthday of A. Lawrence Lowell, President of the University from 1909 to 1933, which fell on December 13. Before his death in 1943, the late ex-President annually attended these celebrations, at which he cut his huge birthday cake, Elliott Perkins, Master of Lowell, will speak briefly at dinner, prior to the play, in honor of the former president...
Business profits will rise slightly in 1947 and '48 to $11 billion after taxes, twice as high as 1940. Unemployment will drop to between 4.5 and 5.5 million. But by 1950 the present huge backlog of demand for goods will be gone. Profits will then drop (how fast and how much, Wallace did not say). Unemployment will rise to between seven and eight million...
...huge four-engined Sunderland flying boat last week approached Buenos Aires from the east, lazily circled the city. Along the Plata estuary, 30,000 enthusiastic Porteños watched the plane land smoothly. Then out hopped the plane's proud owner and Pan American Airways' newest South American competitor, Argentine shipping tycoon Alberto Dodero...
Tenants reacted to all this in the patternless fashion of men making the last clutch at the lifeboat. Some cried that the whole thing was a huge bluff-an apartment owner must prove he is losing money before getting OPA permission to evict a paying tenant. Others argued that no law can keep a man in business if he wants to quit...
Stretchable. For the next three years, the world will have a huge surplus of rubber. So concluded the Rubber Study Group, comprised of experts of The Netherlands, United Kingdom, U.S. and France, at its second meeting held in London. The Group estimated production of synthetic and natural rubber at about 2.7 million tons, world consumption at 1.5 million tons...