Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start, the burro served as replacement for the Indian runners who daily brought fresh fish from the coast to the rulers in Mexico City. Later, it carried the silver & gold of Mexico's mines. Now, 1,325,000-strong, Mexico's burro force still brings huge loads of charcoal down from the hills, jugs of pulque from farms to railheads, drags great beams into Mexico City. Often as not, after a Saturday night, the burro carries home a bleary-eyed master who these days bawls drunkenly...
...huge, unlit Albert Hall, while cleaners dusted, the critics and the curious watched as Sir Malcolm Sargent stopped the London Philharmonic Orchestra for the 18th time to cry "No, no! ... Back to bar 175 again." Finally, looking at his watch, he muttered, "Only two minutes more. My God, I must have this again." Composer Schnabel, bent over his score, nodded his huge, bristly head with sympathy. Two years ago, the Minneapolis Symphony had taken 25 rehearsals before it dared to give Schnabel's treacherous piece its first U.S. hearing...
Howdy Doody, NBC's popular cowboy puppet (TIME, April 5), had his huge audience of kids worried. Howdy had disappeared...
...biggest chunk-upwards of $200 million-went to Boeing, which got the bulk of the bomber orders. Orders for 162 more of its huge B50 Superforts will bring its total backlog close to $500 million. Expanding to get out the planes, Boeing had reopened its vast Wichita plant No. 2; and housewives and farmers were going back to their wartime jobs to help modernize B-29s and make B50 parts...
...blast propaganda campaign against the plan for Western Germany, crying "Einheit" (unity), a slogan that had long made deep and stirring music to German ears. In the Russian zone they had launched a drive for twelve million German signatures on a petition for an "all-German unity" government. A huge sign in Berlin set forth the Communist case (see cut). It read: "Attention! You are now entering the American sector. American democracy rules there. They want to forbid the will of the people. But no power in the world can forbid you to sign. Don't be robbed...