Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spokesman for Lieut. General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, U.S. strategic bombing chief, reported that "all the losses we have suffered in the first four assaults on Berlin were replaced in a matter of hours. . . . Replacements are now automatic from the huge reserves built up in Britain to sustain the air drive...
...three H-hours on three successive days the guns struck. Never before had so many cannon been fired at once; seldom had the devastation been greater. Into the huge gaps torn in the enemy defenses poured the waiting Russian tanks and men. Along with them went the "support artillery"-light field guns and trench mortars-to destroy what men survived the first barrage. Behind, the big guns rumbled...
Gilpin noted an important distinction between the North American and other sections of this belt. North America was a huge concave bowl, sloping into the central Mississippi Valley. This made communication easy, helped trade, brought people together, promoted harmony, made for a fundamental geographical unity. The result, he predicted, would be an immense growth in U.S. wealth, an eventual population of more than a billion...
...Uncle Bertie's cousin Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, publisher of the huge, America Firstish New York Daily News, Trini Barnes says: "I'm still personally fond of him . . . a nice considerate gentleman. I asked him once why he had turned his paper into what it is and he acted surprised and said he wasn't conscious of any change. I don't believe he is." Of the Captain's sister, Eleanor "Cissie" Patterson, publisher of the Washington Times Herald, end of the McCormick-Patterson party line, Mrs. Barnes says: "We seldom meet. When...
...long-winded soap opera came to a happy ending last week. Back in 1941, huge Lever Bros. (Swan, Spry, etc.) sued equally huge Procter & Gamble (Ivory. Crisco, etc.) in Baltimore, contending that P. & G.'s new Ivory soap infringed on Lever's brand-new patented Swan soap. Promptly, P. & G. fired back with a suit of its own, charging that Swan soap infringed on old Ivory soap (TIME, June 22, 1942 ). After a three-year legal struggle, Lever Bros. won its suit in appellate court last December, got ready to battle P. & G. on up into...