Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blue-clad commander, spotlighted on the huge stage of Hollywood's Legion Hall, intoned: "The sergeant at arms will ascertain if there are any veterans of the world wars seeking admission to the American Legion...
...Huene's dramatically lighted pictures were made in Egypt, some among the monumental Egyptian sculptures now in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. One of the book's more striking pictures is a restatement of an old theme: Instead of snapping the Pyramid of Cheops, Huene photographs its huge triangular shadow partially blacking the gleaming modern town at its base...
...terse message went back to the task unit's flagship, the U.S.S. Card, an unarmored merchant ship equipped with an aircraft landing deck: "Scratch one pig-boat-am searching for more." The Borie found another huge pigboat on the surface. Cried a signalman: "My God, what is it, the Bremen?" In ten to 30 seconds the Bone's guns swept the sub's deck. The destroyer leaped forward to ram, went partly over, her bow straddling the U-boat's forward deck. There she stuck. For ten feverish minutes the Borie poured metal from...
...Crusade will open in January, with huge mass meetings in some 100 cities from coast to coast. The meetings will be all-day affairs. Says the Crusade handbook: "Special attention will be given to music and singing and maintaining a high spiritual atmosphere during the entire program." At each meeting everyone will be given a postcard reproduction of the Christy painting. Then & there Methodists will take out their pens, address the cards to men in the armed forces, telling them that the people at home stand for a new world order, that religion must dominate the peace table...
Henry Ford, 80, still brimming confidence, announced that at war's end he will take up the option Ford Motor Co. holds on the Government-owned Willow Run plant and build there huge multiple-engined, cargo-passenger airplanes "of unique design." The company discreetly hinted that Employe Charles A. Lindbergh's experiments "may influence the design of the new plane." The sky Ford of the future (small models have been built) is being designed to land in relatively small space, to operate at a fraction of present big-plane flying cost. It is to be "as positively safe...