Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indomitable Dutch had production rolling in the N. V. Philips Co.'s huge, bomb-pocked electrical manufacturing plant at Eindhoven. In addition to high-priority electrical gadgets for the Allied armies, production at Eindhoven included such prosaic, civilian essentials as pots and pans...
...lightweight houses will be prefabricated on assembly lines by plane builders already feeling the pinch of the transition to peace (Bristol Aeroplane Co., Vickers-Armstrong Ltd., Blackburn Aircraft Co.). More important, they will draw off much of Great Britain's and Canada's huge aluminum and magnesium production which has been more than quadrupled during the war, and which might otherwise have had but a piddling peacetime market...
...years ago this month, when other U.S. companies were asking huge premiums for war-zone insurance, Equitable agreed to give a lift to the newly formed War Agencies Employees Protective Association. It set up a worldwide system of low cost ($15-a-thousand) group life insurance for U.S. Government employes working in or around war zones...
...months after Pearl Harbor, RFC replaced WIC with the War Damage Corp., which took over the same type of insurance but charged premiums of $1 a $1,000. WDC has had to pay out only trifling amounts, has $220,000,000 of untouched profits to balance in part the huge losses...
...huge close-ups of the helmeted heads of infantrymen as they move into battle, or rest after it while you are told that many of those you watch are soon to die. have the simple immediacy of good family snapshots-and the enduring majesty of a heroic frieze...