Word: huges
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other places on the coast of Lingayen Gulf are sending up a terrible barrage and are giving the hottest reception ever recorded in the annals of war to the oncoming enemy convoys. . . . Bellows from our guns spread roaringly across the bay. . . . The enemy task force has battleships or other huge warships at its very front. . . . Grumman and Curtiss planes fly over our positions and repeatedly carry out dives, thus bombing and strafing our positions with machine guns...
...been rumored that Nazi scientists have used civilian prisoners as guinea pigs for macabre biological experiments. Last week the rumors were documented. A French investigating commission reported on a huge prison camp in Alsace where hundreds of men & women had been tortured and killed under carefully controlled conditions in order to supply data for Nazi science...
...Nevertheless, says he, businessmen should not look upon controls as such evils that they must be done away with in short order. Rather they should see them as tools which, skill fully used, will unstopper the economy so that the forces for full employment, i.e., war-created markets and huge savings, are freed in a steady stream, not one dam-breaking burst...
Stocks & Profits. The job of keeping Gimbel on top poses a knotty problem. Many a merchant fears that he might be caught with huge supplies of substitute goods, if the war should end suddenly, have to take huge losses to sell them...
...been to Britain, talked to the chiefs of the vast and successful British cooperative societies, which have 9,000,000 members, control 24% of England's retail food sales, feed 42% of the population of Scotland. Saskatchewan's farmers knew that the co-ops also have huge investments in Argentine packing houses and creameries in New Zealand. The good news that Minister McIntosh had to tell the home folks was that the British cooperatives were ready to do more business with Canadian cooperatives. They were prepared as a starter to invest in new hog-processing plants in Saskatchewan...