Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well might the President consider carefully before signing that mammoth document. It is the biggest tax bill in U.S. history. To the $9,500,000,000 which the U.S. would have paid next year under the present tax rates, it adds another $3,553,400,000, a sum that in 1927 would have run the U.S. Government for a whole year, but next year will last less than eleven weeks...
...pages of this mammoth document were numerous references to Mexico's friendly relations with the U.S., Mexico's willingness to welcome foreign capital, Mexico's place in Hemisphere defense. But what made foreign diplomats in the gallery, including U.S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels, sit up and listen was Manuel Camacho's hint that a comprehensive economic agreement may soon be reached between the U.S. and Mexico...
...week's end, retail stocks were virtually gone. Then the women started in on silk slips and panties, silk socks for their husbands. In the slip department of Manhattan's mammoth R. H. Macy & Co. a sign went up: "Sorry! One to a customer...
This correspondent, who has visited some of Detroit's and Pittsburgh's largest plants, was impressed by this first tour of what is admittedly one of the best Soviet factories. He noted especially "the considerably larger number of women workers of all sorts, from operators of mammoth stamping hammers to mechanics on the assembly line...
...Pride. German forces proudly let it be known that they had captured a mammoth 120-ton tank bearing the name PRIDE OF STALIN. The trouble with Comrade Stalin's pride was said to be that it could go only six miles an hour...