Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rate of expansion. Though the moviemakers were still caught on the horns of their 3-Dilemma, the other industries of fast-growing Southern California had become so diversified that Hollywood's slump was insignificant. The volume of building in the Los Angeles area alone (nearly $1 billion) was larger than the combined 1952 total of Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Denver, Baltimore and Boston...
...Cress's folks call her back from college to be at her dying grandfather's bedside. In a scene less solid than symbolic, Cress, now 16, gets her diploma from girlhood, and finally meets, in the fact of her grandfather's death, a reality larger than herself...
...boost, once scheduled to go into effect in 1943, was postponed after a fight led by the late Senator Arthur Vandenberg.) Some Republican Congressmen argue that the 10% cut in income taxes on Jan. 1 will be more than offset for workers in low tax brackets by the larger social-security payment. Actually, this is a weak argument. At the new rate, unmarried workers will get less take-home pay only if their taxable incomes are under $800 a year: married couples without dependents only if their income is less than $1,500, and families with two dependents if they...
...Numbers Mobile to teach the child both arithmetic and art appreciation. To make the mobile balance, the child must hang a number of small Masonite disks on one side to match corresponding numerical figures on the other. The big numbers are larger and heavier than the small ones, thus require more disks to balance the mobile...
Moreover, the atomic arms are weapons of total war. Present tactics rule out their use in smaller, localized conflicts like that in Korea. Baby A-bombs were available for use in Korea. But they were not used because atomic retaliation on a larger scale loomed as an inevitable result. In the event of another localized out-break, in Korea again, or in Indo-China or Malaya, the need will once more be for foot-soldiers with conventional weapons, and not for atomic missiles...