Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...port of Bremen.) The political section, presumably to be under the State Department's Robert Murphy, will direct both foreign and domestic affairs. Food, agriculture and forestry, price control and rationing, public works and utilities, internal and foreign trade, industrial conversion and liquidation will be under a huge economics section. Brigadier General ("Wild Bill") Donovan's Office of Strategic Services probably will staff the intelligence section, in general charge of the deNazification program...
Billowing Fires. In the two biggest and most destructive attacks so far launched, The Cigar last week sent more than 900 B-29s against Japan. A first force of more than 400 set huge, billowing fires in the naval fueling station and synthetic fuel factory at Tokuyama, the big oil refinery at Otaki, and the oil storage installations on Oshima (biggest in the home islands). They also flogged four airfields on Kyushu and Shikoku. Fighter opposition was timid, but there was heavy flak from Jap warships. Nevertheless, not one of the big bombers was lost...
There was to have been a huge Goring Museum. There was to have been a huge Hitler Museum. Together, they were to house the cream of Europe's art. Last week the U.S. Seventh Army's Lieut. James J. Rorimer (curator-on-leave of Medieval art at the Metropolitan Museum) found himself sitting on one of the most mountainous heaps of stolen masterpieces known to history. Part of the intended contents of the two projected Nazi museums, the loot was stored in Neuschwanstein Castle, an elaborate retreat built by mad King Ludwig in the wooded hills of southern...
...last year's $1.110,083). American Airlines, likewise bragging of its heaviest traffic ever, cashed in to the tune of $980,643 (v. $597,796). For many another company, the explanation of the golden showing was entirely different. It was due less to any huge increase in volume than to the fact that most companies have stopped tucking away cash for reconversion, postwar expansion, etc.*They have already put away all they think they will need...
...When Linz, Austria, was surrendered intact at week's end, the Allies could plan to catalogue the contents of the huge Linz Museum built by Hitler in memory of his mother. The Mother Hitler memorial collection is probably heavy with mediocre German pictures reflecting Hitler's infallibly turgid taste...