Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...19th Century] England and France. . . asked and obtained the opening of some additional places to foreign trade, more privileges for the Christian missionaries . . . During the same period, Russia obtained from China the northern bank of the Amur River and the eastern bank of the Ussuri River ... an area larger than that of France and Germany combined. This area is now held by the Soviet Union. [It] includes the port of Vladivostok...
...interior of the ship had been almost completely rebuilt. Passenger capacity had been cut from 2,200 to 1.513 to provide larger cabins and airy, well-lighted public rooms. Among the new features: a blossom-stuffed conservatory, a mural-lined children's dining-room, a small music salon where traveling musicians can practice. In the hold, to dine & wine the passengers on the six-day crossing, were eight tons of prime beef, 60,000 eggs, 5,000 bottles of champagne...
...Cabinet, explained why it had to be: the under-$5,000 group accounts for 91% of all taxpayers in the U.S. and 69% of all taxable personal income before exemptions. "A relatively small increase in the rate in the lowest brackets," said Secretary Snyder, "contributes more revenue than a larger increase at the higher levels...
...week's first session, in his usual way, he gathered up his papers, shoved them into a briefcase, locked it and handed it to an aide, who put it into a larger briefcase and locked that too. Then Jacob Malik walked stiffly from the Council chamber...
Last week in Detroit, Federal District Judge Frank A. Picard ordered the stockholders to accept the offer, and accused those who held out for a larger sum of "trying to cause Henry Kaiser's financial eclipse." Said Judge Picard: "Kaiser was the victim of his own paternalism in trying to make the K-F company a success," and was innocent of any "fraud, deceit, collusion or any wrongful...