Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much of the spending is not being done in such noticeably big pieces. Smaller companies in almost every other industry are making small but widespread changes in the industrial landscape. They are building extensions to existing plants or raising new ones in a vast scramble for spacious positions close to power, labor, raw materials, markets, or cheaper tax rates...
...Chicago Daily News. At first, everything was fine. Marshall Field's Sun was out to wear down Bertie McCormick's monolithic Tribune. Always happy to stick an irritating finger in McCormick's glacial eye, the late Colonel Frank Knox quartered the Sun in his spacious Daily News plant, let it use his presses at night and was nice about the rent. Hardheaded John S. Knight later took over the Daily News, but not its feuds. He played footie with McCormick; and as a landlord saw no reason to charge the Sun less than the traffic would bear...
...Esmerelda, late in life, has developed a penchant for bringing boys and girls together. In her spacious back seat and on her soft front cushions literally hundreds of couples have sat and talked of the world and the meaning of things...
...zoos, each has its points of superiority. The Bronx's is the biggest anywhere. Little, open-air tractor trains, salvaged from the 1939 World's Fair, help visitors get around its spacious preserve. The Bronx has the greatest variety of species, and some of the greatest oddities. Its bongo, a reddish antelope with white rings around its middle, is the only one in captivity. Its okapi, built like a giraffe in front and a zebra behind, is the only one in the U.S. This spring the Bronx made a big splash with the importation of three duck-billed...
...present some 750 volumes on all subjects are stored in the library's spacious quarters on the third floor of Brooks House, but Pugliese claimed that he needs at least 250 more...