Word: largest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...call Secretary Morgenthau for suggestions. Best reason for the President's not taking Congress into his confidence was that everybody was occupied with "something else": Nov. 3, 1936. Unless new taxes are imposed, fiscal 1937 is likely to show a deficit of upwards of $5,000,000.000, largest in any year of Depression or Recovery -a very poor election argument for the New Deal. Since processing taxes re-enacted under the name of excises can be called substitutes rather than new taxes, they will not prevent the President from keeping his promise of "no new taxes." The same might...
...marked now not as a blob, but as an island universe containing a billion or more stars. Finally, at Harvard, the diameter of this star-galaxy was measured at some 10,000 light years, which unveiled it at last as a crown prince of the cosmos, third largest among known spiral nebulae, inferior only to long, loose Messier 33 and the Great Nebula in Andromeda. Because of its nearness Dr. Shapley put it in the local supergalaxy which includes the Milky Way, Messier 33, the Andromeda nebula, the Large and Small Clouds of Magellan...
...Manhattan's handsome Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, many a Catholic went last week to venerate the church's latest acquisition. Exposed during a solemn novena was a gilded silver reliquary containing a finger joint of St. Vincent Ferrer-one of the largest major relics extant of a man who was one of the greatest evangelists of all time. Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419), of knightly Spanish birth, belonged to the Order of Friars Preachers (Dominicans). For 50 years he lived austerely, declined all honors. With middle age came Vincent Ferrer's renown as a wonder worker...
...small fraction of the domestic plate glass output. When Mr. Ford and Mr. Pitcairn disagreed, the Fords got out and Edward Ford, son of Founder John, founded a company which later joined Messrs. Libbey and Owens* to form in Libbey-Owens-Ford an eternal rival to Pittsburgh Plate. Although largest flat glassmaker. Pittsburgh Plate also expanded into the paint business and now ranks second to Sherwin-Williams as a U. S. paintmaker. But glass has a better profit margin, and Pittsburgh has by no means lost interest in glass. It got into safety glass through E. I. du Pont...
...revolutionized air transport the world over. The first commercial transport plane the 12-year-old Douglas Aircraft Co. had ever built, it and the improved DC2 speedily lifted the company from insignificance to leadership. Simultaneously, the little Douglas factory at Santa Monica, Calif., grew into the world's largest airplane manufacturing plant...