Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room in the Hotel Scribe is huge, highceilinged, with Army bed rolls stacked in one corner and piles of Army rations in another. We have hot water only once or twice a week for an hour, so everybody tries to bathe and shave at the same time...
...union-authorized coal strikes were the most serious. In general the U.S. merely went on suffering from its apparently chronic rash of brief wildcat walkouts. At the huge Willow Run Liberator bomber plant, 2,000 key workers walked out one day, walked back in the next; they had entirely stalled production for more than 24 hours. In Chicago 600 employes at the Dodge plant, which makes 6-29 Superfortress engines, struck for three days, scurried back to work after a wounded Army private had pleaded with them. In Bessemer, Ala., male welders in the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co. went...
...threat was triple: Chernyakhovsky's forces aimed at the East Prussian border; Rokossovsky's and Zakharov's forces aimed directly west toward Berlin, but could swing north to envelop East Prussia, or north and south to envelop Warsaw; Konev's huge bridgehead on the upper Vistula pointed at Cracow and German Silesia. Most of the surface activity last week was in the Balkans, but the great drive had passed from the explosive to the mopping-up stage. The noises from Berlin betrayed well-grounded anxiety about the sectors north of the Carpathians, the direct menace...
Horse Meat Helps. Almost half of France's newborn babies were underweight, and the child death rate had increased by 25%. Tuberculosis deaths were up 51%. The Germans had drained off dairy products, livestock (a quarter of France's cattle, a third of her draft animals), huge quantities of wine (for the Wehrmacht: 60,000 bottles of champagne daily-though the Germans, who did not know enough to specify the vintage years, did not get the best). Last week in towns where retreating Germans left dead horses on the street, the inhabitants eagerly butchered the carcasses...
Minks Are Different. The capacity crowd at the hearing included Mrs. McLaughlin, in a flaming red dress and huge silver bracelets; a dozen McLaughlinites; 1,500 medical students in military uniform ; a troop of irritated professors and doctors; about 500 hopeful spectators...