Word: largest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shapley's announcement followed upon the completion of the largest existing catalogue of external galaxies, issued today, and tabulated during the past five years by Miss Sylvia Mussells of the astronomical staff...
Previous to this catalogue, the largest catalogue of galaxies ever made was the famous "New General Catalogue," published in Ireland fifty years ago, and containing records of about 7,000 objects...
...jobless citizens actually put to work by last week, a discouraging number were growling about their low pay, threatening to strike. Last week President Roosevelt tossed them another bone by changing the basis of local wage rates from county population to population of the largest municipality within the county...
...Reformists, getting nowhere themselves, seemed likely to elect only Mr. Stevens. Hour by hour Mr. King & Liberals forged ahead on the crest of Canada's "against-the-Government'' reaction to Depression, until ultimately they found themselves topping the Liberal landslide which gives Mr. King the largest majority his party has ever had, makes him Premier-presumptive, to be installed in a few weeks...
...stockholders of Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp., fourth largest producer of fertilizer in the U. S., started fighting in the summer of 1932, have been at it ever since. One rule of their game appears to be that the president of the company always loses. There have been three presidents in the last three years, and there will probably be a fourth next month. Another rule is that Director George S. Kemp always wins. In Richmond last week Virginia-Carolina stockholders elected a new directorate. One set of candidates was headed by Director Kemp; the other by President Alphonso Lynn Ivey...