Word: largest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...argue for themselves. On an 867-acre hilltop farm near Jacarezinho, a mixedcapital company has completed its 32nd cross of Brazilian seed corn, has harvested 32 tons of high-yielding hybrid, and sold the lot to Parana and São Paulo farmers. For the world's third largest corn producer, the possibilities of hybrid were scarcely less revolutionary than they had proved for Iowa...
...least two touch football leagues and five tennis tournaments are open to the Class of '52 as part of the University's largest peacetime intramural program...
...help her discharge her responsibilities, the Dutch people have elected a sober, able lot of politicians. The two largest parties, the Laborites and the Catholics, work well together. The Netherlands' Premier, Willem Drees, is a quiet, respected Socialist who started out as a bank clerk and parliamentary stenographer. Last week he peered through his pince-nez from behind his neat desk and spoke to a U.S. newsman. "Western Union? A fine and necessary thing, but it will take a lot of time ... Holland is grateful indeed...
This week the Leonards opened the latest addition to their cut-price department store. It upped their selling space by half, making it one of the largest retail houses in the Southwest. They expect 100,000 customers on opening day, hope never to see a day when the cash registers fail to ring up $100,000 in sales...
...twelve months lean, hard-bitten Charles M. White, president of Republic Steel Corp., has been playing two-handed poker for gigantic stakes. His opponent: War Assets Administrator Jess Larson. The stakes: the Government's $28 million Cleveland blast furnace and coke plant, one of the world's largest...