Word: largest
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...nomination, the supreme spiritual ruler of the largest of the world's Christian groups, temporal ruler of but a tiny kingdom, Our Holy Father, Pius...
...will be preserved by the quick-freezing Birdseye process (named for its inventor in 1925, Clarence Birdseye) which keeps food fresh for two years. Owner of the Birdseye process is General Foods Corp., of which Mrs. Davies, daughter of Cereal Tycoon Charles William Post, is a director and the largest single stockholder...
Typical was the largest Electoral College, which assembled in Albany, N. Y. Among the 47 electors who drew their $15 day's pay, their 10? a mile travel allowance and their free souvenir fountain pens (for signing oaths and official certifications) were, besides numerous ward bosses, four women, such political war horses as one-time Ambassador James W. Gerard, one-time Editor Herbert Bayard Swope, one-time Police Commissioner Grover A. Whalen, Roosevelt Friend Frank C. Walker, such reigning Labor Union chiefs as Sidney Hillman (Amalgamated Clothing Workers), Joseph P. Ryan (International Longshoremen), Max Zaritsky (United Hatters, Cap & Millinery...
...Briggs was the largest independent body maker in the U. S. It still is. An original capital investment of $50,000 has produced a $42,468,000 company. Mainly on body business from such motor makers as Ford, Chrysler and Packard, Briggs last year earned $9,266,000. To diversify its manufactures the company has lately developed a line of lightweight stamped iron bathroom fixtures with a porcelain finish called "Brig-steel" which it says is cheaper to ship and install than conventional products...
...modified superlative so dear to the West Coast, the Central Bank of Oakland is the "largest California bank outside of San Francisco and Los Angeles" (resources: $43,000,000). Its 15-story building at Broadway and 14th Street, where 15 Oakland trolley lines converge, is described by the bank as "sublimated and refined Italian Romanesque." Last week Amadeo Peter Giannini, who if not precisely sublimated or Romanesque is at least refined Italian, reached out across the Bay from San Francisco, firmly grasped the stoutly independent Central Bank of Oakland...