Word: largest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time when the world is indeed out of joint, it is fortunate that the leaders of the two largest democracies are getting together on a Gettysburg farm to chat about setting it right. Between them, certainly, President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Nehru share more popular support than any other two men in the world, and in their conversations this week the two great leaders are undoubtedly conscious that many of those supporters are laying great odds on the good that can come of the historic meeting...
...basketball team drew its largest and noisiest audience to date last night when an estimated 75 inmates of the shiny new Walpole Penitentiary watched the Crimson collect its fourth straight...
...post-Korean prisoner-of-war code. A hard-but smooth-working executive with a knack for grasping complicated ideas and reducing them to a two-sentence précis, Burgess won a reputation as one of the best administrators in Government. As administrator of the nation's fourth largest airline, Burgess will earn an estimated $100,000 (including bonuses, stock participation, etc.) v. his present $19,000 a year...
Died. John Philip (Phil) Weyerhaeuser Jr., 57, publicity-shy (since 1935, when his son George was kidnaped and ransomed for $200,000) president of the $300 million Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., the Northwest's largest (with 2,500,000 acres of timberland in Washington and Oregon), who pioneered selective cutting, tree farming, changed U.S. lumbering from a looters' pillage to a responsible business; of leukemia; in Tacoma, Wash...
...conspiring" to obtain TV stations in five of the nation's eight top markets. Specifically, said the trustbusters, NBC threatened last year to withhold its network affiliations, (and guaranteed programming) from Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. stations unless Westinghouse swapped its radio and TV outlets in Philadelphia, the fourth-largest TV market in population and retail sales, for NBC's radio and TV stations in Cleveland (which, said the complaint, was the tenth market), plus...