Word: largest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pulp with one hand, while with the other he has built up the second enterprise equally gigantic, and at first glance unrelated. International Paper is now the world's chief producer of newsprint; its new (1928) parent, International Paper & Power Co. is one of the world's largest producers of power...
...that, if draped across Europe, it would stretch from Moscow to Madrid. To compensate for its unwieldy shape, nature has given it a variety of riches: underneath its parched yellow soil in the desolate northern region lie the world's most valuable deposits of nitrate and the second largest known deposits of copper; its pleasant, well-watered, fertile central area, where most of its people live, supplies more wheat, cattle and wine than Chile can use; and its rain-sodden southern provinces are rich in lumber, much of them still virgin territory and inhabited by half-savage Indians...
...Chillán been destroyed; the full force of the quake had torn up a vast, 450-mile-long segment of the narrow nation. Some 20 towns and villages throughout Chile's richest agricultural and mining regions had been leveled. At Concepión, Chile's third largest city, 70% of the buildings were on the ground. Chillán, hardest hit, looked from the air like a mammoth anthill overturned. Its church spires and jagged masonry protruded through the debris. Its surviving residents scrabbled in the ruins for the dead and injured. In the countryside, wide fissures...
...finishing touches on five of the world's most remarkable airplanes, the Boeing 314 flying boats for transoceanic service (another is already completed). Forty-two-ton monsters each as high as a two-story house and as powerful as 6,000 horses, the four-motored ships are the largest ever built for commercial service. Last week in Manhattan, Pan American Airways President Juan T. Trippe announced that his company's purchase of these six Boeings had been financed like ordinary railroad cars by the first full-fledged aviation equipment trust certificates...
...export more goods than it imports. (Debts cannot be collected unless the U. S. buys more from its debtors than they buy from it.) Last week the Department of Commerce reported that 1938's export surplus of $1,133,567,000 was the largest since...