Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agency of Benton & Bowles. By 1936, the year Benton sold out to be vice president of the University of Chicago, they had run their billings up to $15 million a year. Bowles hung around until 1941, making more money; then he too gave in to the longing for a larger life of public service, headed up the Connecticut OPA, later became Franklin Roosevelt's OPAdministrator. Though apart in business, Benton & Bowles remained a close political team; in 1949 Bowles, then governor of Connecticut, appointed Benton, seasoned by two years as an Assistant Secretary of State, to the U.S. Senate...
...cited Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell's own statement that "there is no essential physical difference between the launching of missiles, which do not have to be manned, and the launching of bombers with hydrogen bombs, which have to be manned." He added: "If Russia, with her incomparably larger forces, were to launch an all-out attack, then the Western Allies would have the choice of striking back with nuclear weapons or submitting to defeat and occupation." The Victory-for-Socialism Laborites leaped to their feet shouting "Suicide." Sandys replied by quoting the words of Clement Attlee, uttered when...
...examination of Post Office expenses was made in 1926, first class mail has consistently paid far more than its cost. The rate hike proposal recently approved by the Senate will increase even more the proportion of postal service supported by first class revenue. In effect, it will give a larger discount rate to the major magazine concerns and the advertisers who flood the post office with "junk mail...
...real hero of the affair is Fernandel himself, and it is a pity his role is not larger. He has a marvelous antique car that trots like a spavined horse, and he shines in an all-too-brief drunk scene. The sight of Fernandel in uniform- he follows the pilot off to war-helps to explain the failure of the Maginot Line...
Looser & Stronger. The committee conceded that the industry at first tried to put out effective filters. But when smokers found the cigarettes too weak, "first, the filters were loosened to permit a larger number of smoke particles to get through. Second, the blend was changed to include more of the stronger, heavier-bodied tobaccos." In 1952 P. Lorillard Co. (Kent) designed a filter that let in only i milligram of nicotine, 9 milligrams of tar; unfortunately, the sales did not reflect the effectiveness, and last year, said the committee, Kent's new filter let through double this nicotine...