Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Council, however, has no direct control over its constituent unions or their nearly 8,000,000 members. It can only "recommend." A real test of Cripps's disagreeable program will come next month, when leaders of individual unions meet. Already some unions had balked. Last week the huge Confederation of Shipbuilding & Engineering Unions (3,000,000 members) was still insisting on a general wage increase. Said Communist Arthur Horner, general secretary of the Mineworkers' Union: "The first blow in the economic crisis must be struck at profits and luxury living, not at wages...
...pronounced that "dead, gone, finished." Some doubted that it was even jazz: it had a shifty beat (and sometimes none), little-if any-form, and even less improvisation. Most of it sounded like Duke Ellington with the D.T.s. But when Kenton's band got to pushing out such huge, screeching blotches of sound as Artistry Jumps and Message to Harlem, the fans ripped the place wide open. They listened to his newest and most pretentious masterpiece;, Prologue Suite in Four Movements, in a state of glassy somnam-bulance. When Kenton capped it all with his Concerto...
Bevan's new health scheme, scheduled to go into effect July 5, is a huge expansion of the panel. All of Britain's 48,000,000 men, women & children (Northern Ireland has a separate plan) will be included; payments by workers will be more than doubled...
...opposition that spectators seldom glanced at the Scoreboard. They paid to see the famed Negro team do their tricks (rolling the ball down their arms, through the enemy's legs, or lining up in formation like a football team). The team's star: Reece ("Goose") Tatum, whose huge hands dangle gorilla-fashion almost to his knees, and who handles a basketball the way most people handle an orange. The problem was to find a good enough team to make Tatum & Co. settle down to serious basketball...
...years the Lion flag of Kandy waved defiantly over the Indian Ocean island of Ceylon. Under it the Sinhalese Buddhist kings struggled and connived with invading princes and rival island chieftains for uncertain sovereignty over their huge (25,000 sq. mi.) island of blue mountains, green jungles and yellow sands. Then Ceylon became a British Crown colony, and in 1815 the Lion of Kandy was hauled down to make room for another, more famous member of his species...