Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, the lumber companies, especially the smaller ones, are almost entirely dependant upon National Forest sales for their timber. The small operators have difficulty enough obtaining timber in a straight competitive sale, since the larger companies can afford to pay more than the timber is worth in order to deprive the smaller operators and hence force them out of the area. The large company, having then no competitors, can buy National Forest timber at the minimum price...
This building grant is part of a larger gift of $2,050,000, presented in January, 1955, for expansion in the field of international legal studies. The gift was also earmarked for two new professorships and a ten-year liquidating grant to be spent on research and fellowships...
...many places in the Great Plains, moisture conditions are the worst in recorded history." The result: after only one month of the normal (November-May) annual "blow" season, the acreage of crop and range land damaged by soil-eroding winds in the ten-state area was already three times larger (almost 2,000,000 acres, one-third of them in Kansas) than in the same period last year. Moreover, with the peak of the high-wind season yet to come, some 29 million additional acres-up almost 10 million from December 1955-were "in condition to blow" because of pulverized...
Janos dreamed of a still larger meeting that might finish with a demonstration in Parliament Square, demanding that Imre Nagy, who had been Premier during the "new look" period after Stalin's death, be reinstated. But the Central Committee got wind of their plans and suppressed the Petofi Club. Janos despaired: "We are too young to be followed by the people. We are unknown. We must start organizing and think in terms of years of underground work." Janos had been excited by the news from Poland of Gomulka's successful defiance of Khrushchev, and sensed that there was a corresponding...
...coaching job at the University of Southern California. Although similar past rumors have taken him west it is possible that as the years go by his business interests in California might lure him to the West Coast appointment which would presumably carry a higher salary, as well as a larger degree of freedom in obtaining top football talent. He previously coached at Loyola of Los Angeles...