Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brain like a weight. Flying southeastward over the Canadian Rockies, he fell asleep. When he awoke an hour and 40 minutes later, he was flying almost due north. All around him, white-fanged peaks glinted in the moonlight. "I looked up and I was headed for a huge cloud. No, I thought, that's not a cloud." It was the top of Mount Logan, 19,850 feet high. "I just pulled back on the wheel and spiraled right up ... before I straightened out for home...
...Blenheim Palace the Tories last week held their biggest rally since the 1945 Labor victory. The palace, a huge pile of yellowed brown and grey stone given by a grateful Parliament to the first Duke of Marlborough, loomed impressively amid the green of flawlessly kept lawns, woods, pastures and ponds. The afternoon was perfect, with just a touch of cloud, wind and rain to make it true to England. Into the green expanse spilled some 60,000 Britons (at 50? for the general public, 30? for Conservative Party members). For their entertainment there were bowling greens, tea tents, puppet shows...
Mexican prisoners scorn anything like escape art. Instead of landscapes, birds, or flowers, most of them daub away at private horrors. Samples: a half-human fetus turning away in fright from a street, a huge fist clutching eight cadavers, skeletons, three starved men craning their necks to catch driblets from a single spoon. One lifer, condemned for the murder of his wife and children, had dreamed up a lovely woman trailing blood across his cell floor...
...last week from $60 to $168, despite a record peacetime profit of $81,804,815 in the second quarter v. $65,818,019 in the first quarter. G.M.'s explanation: since November 1946, steel and almost all other materials have gone up in price along with wages. Its huge profit, said G.M., was due to low-cost materials in inventories. Now that they were used up and it had to buy at present prices, it contended, its costs had risen sharply, not only for steel but for other and more costly items that go into the automobile assembly line...
Last week, as Bob came home from Chicago to St. Cloud to a 50-piece band, a Chamber of Commerce luncheon and a huge horseshoe of roses, he said enthusiastically: "Butler Bros, can become the General Motors of merchandise; the Du Ponts did it with automobiles. All the small-town merchant will have to do is stay home and take care of his store. Butler Brothers will do the rest...