Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roughneck Start. What the guests saw were 18 floors decorated in an eclectic style advertised as "the best of all periods." There were seven acres of grounds, a huge fan-shaped swimming pool, 500 paintings in the guest rooms, employees in 25 different uniforms, and three penthouse apartments that would rent furnished for $2,100 a month apiece (the rooms below began at $6 a night...
...India's modern commerce and industry: the streamlined tentacles of Air-India operating over 6,000 miles of airways; its vast, nationalized (but hardly modernized) railroad system, fourth largest in the world; the radio station at New Delhi, looking like a maharaja's palace; and its huge cotton mills. The film is cut and paced to make forcefully clear the disorder and vitality, the sloth and aspiration of an ancient country in the process of becoming a modern nation...
...alcoholic "tea" for the women's press corps. Either with rare good luck or uncanny generalship, she ingratiated herself early with Harry Truman. She feted him as a Senator, gave the first party in his honor-a $5,000 blowout-when he became Vice President. She gave a huge "coming-out" party for Margaret Truman in 1946. When Margaret sang in Oklahoma City, Perle brought Bess Truman's bridge club all the way down from Independence to hear her, threw a big party at the Skirvin Hotel afterward...
...Mikoyan studied U.S. meatpacking processes in Chicago. He returned home to set up the huge Mikoyan packinghouse in Moscow and to teach the Russians how to eat cornflakes, drink canned fruit juices. He said then: "We do not need to copy Americans, but we can learn much from their advertising methods...
...stiffer competition within the eight weight classes would result in better teams which would, in turn, attract even larger crowds than those under the present system do. Last year, wrestling drew the third largest number of spectators, and was one of the very few sports which helped offset the huge H.A.A. deficit. Spectator interest as well as participant interest would be enhanced if wrestling were a major sport, for the sport can be a thrilling one if the fan knows what it's all about...