Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prodded by St. Louis' crusading newspapers and the complaints of competing dealers, the state's attorney began poking around Bob's empire. What he found was this: Knetzer lost money on every car he delivered, made his money from the suckers, who got nothing. From his huge backlog of cash deposits, Knetzer bought cars at dealers' auctions for $2,500, sold them for $1,750. Thus he could make good on enough deliveries to keep more customers-and more cash-coming. Cars were scarce, suckers were plentiful and after all, when Bob delivered, the price...
...season's biggest night for PBH will come just before Halloween when the Social Service Committee, aided by the Speakers and Entertainers group, will stage 20 huge parties. Singing, vaudeville, and magic, as well as cider and doughnuts will entertain settlement house crowds...
Three months after Pearl Harbor, the committee issued a report on Japanese espionage. It was a huge document, but as many well-informed individuals pointed out, its contents were largely known before-hand. Discomfited, Dies remarked that at least the report was "educational...
...intention of dropping any of his fulltime jobs. For 33 years he has been editor of the Richmond News Leader, of which he is also a "substantial" stockholder.* And for 23 years Freeman has been a daily news broadcaster. When he finds time in between, he labors on his huge historical projects...
...inside the huge, dark loft, and the dust begins to swirl and the ones on the wagon are pitching hay up at you as fast as they can, and you are trying tp stow it back in the loft. In about two minutes the place begins to put on a very good imitation of purgatory, for the sun is beating down mercilessly on a tin roof over your head, and the loft is one big black Stifling oven. I wish I had thought a little about that cow barn, back in the days when I was committing so many sins...