Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other TWAsters found nothing humorous in his trips. Wherever Cohu stopped, employees usually got fired. Cohu merged TWA's four regional headquarters into one office and trimmed the airline's swollen staff of 15,000 by 13%. As costs went down and traffic rose, TWA's deficit was turned into a profit of $202,000 in this year's second quarter...
...reason for this imbalance, almost all these polled, from professors to teaching fellows, agreed that the University staff is too small to serve adequately the swollen, post-war student body...
Enrollment in public schools hit a record 24,209,796 this fall, the National Education Association reported. War babies have swollen the schools by half a million...
...Whisper. Everybody knew that something should be done. Swollen prices could upset the domestic economy. And as the President pointed out last week-even while he reversed himself and put foreign aid ahead of the price situation-swollen prices would multiply the problem of foreign aid: there was no use in Congress' appropriating money for 100 million bushels of wheat if the money, by the time it came to be spent, would buy only 25 million bushels...
...swollen orange moon, hanging low in the sky like a Chinese lantern, peered fitfully through the clammy fog. It was a raw night, and Parisians pulled their coats tightly around them as they hurried back to unheated homes. Beside me, huddled in muffler and tattered topcoat, Anatole Carvin, 61, sat on a rickety stool and hawked his roast chestnuts...