Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suckled by mighty Grand Coulee and Bonneville dams is one of the lustiest of West Coast war babies-its brand-new aluminum industry. Thriving on cheap power, five huge reduction plants have burgeoned in less than four years, now turn out 30% of U.S. pig aluminum. But many a West Coast industrialist is worried over the baby's future. Reason: its mother, mammoth Alcoa, may strangle...
Strictly unrestricted: All hands agree that Company Charlie's second smoker was a huge success. There were times when it was feared the five flag might have to be hoisted when the lights kept going out, but the trouble was quickly stopped...
...start of the second half, Dick Warren, left forward, who was Harvard's high scorer with ten points broke the ice and then watched the deluge, as Tufts seared away to a huge lead. In this half the glaring weaknesses under the backboard, in passing, foul-shooting, and guarding became evident, although close guarding held down former high scorer Kearns, who tallied only two points in the second half...
...could hardly be otherwise. Delegates from 44 nations had sat down at a green baize-covered table to work out a democratic formula for relief to war-torn countries containing 500 million people, where human wreckage is on a scale almost too huge to conceive...
...tide that morning bared the bodies of many Marines, some hunched grotesquely, others with arms outstretched, all arrested while charging forward. At regimental headquarters, located 30 yards inland against a Jap log-and-steel-laced blockhouse, staff officers worked grimly. Colonel David Shoup, huge, bull-necked commander of the men ashore, reported: "We're in a mighty tight spot. . . . We've got to have more men." It was touch-&38;-go whether the Marines would all be killed, or, less likely, be pushed back into...