Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even less solid stuff in which to sink a pen has been furnished by the New Deal's vast social and economic innovations. Republicans have jabbed hardest and oftenest at Spending & Taxation, with frequent digs at the Red Issue, Relief Corruption, Regimentation, Unemployment, Foreign Farm Imports. Democratic favorites have been Recovery and the Interests, nicely combined in pictures of plutocratic Old Deal ingrates howling calamity against a background of soaring business graphs and smoking factories...
MATHEMATICAL: You give our constituency as a hundred thousand, whereas we claim a constituency (built principally in past twelve years) of a million. There were 12,000 Registered Delegates to this convention-many times that many attended-120,000 sq. ft. of space inside and out of the vast building were occupied by people standing. I estimate a hundred thousand different individuals attended this convention...
...expire on Election Day is the contract by which TVA has refrained from invading vast Commonwealth & Southern Corp.'s retail power market in the Tennessee Valley. Now in the process of laying duplicating transmission lines and primed to generate 200,000 h. p., TVA is potentially ready to strike at Commonwealth & Southern and other power companies in the neighborhood by absorbing 60% of their market. At stake was also the future of many another private utility company with which the Governments other great power projects are potential competitors...
Idly he picks up a copy of Liberty, reads the way suggested by The President's Mystery Story for a man to disappear and take his vast fortune with him. Blake's execution of this incredibly far-fetched escape is on the way to success when his wife is suddenly killed by Capitalist Sartos' chauffeur. The crime is laid to the vanished Blake. When the corpse he has planted behind as his own is found, he is called a suicide, seems free from pursuit...
...plans for adding northern Canada to MIVA's territory. During the summer, accompanied by Toronto Pilot Pat Howard, he flew an all-metal Junkers named Santa Maria to the mouth of the Mackenzie River, presented it to Most Rev. Gabriel Breynat, O. M. I., vicar general of that vast area. In December, when the Mackenzie freezes solid, Father Schulte will again fly north, leave at least one plane equipped with wheels, floats and skis. In the north heretofore Catholic missionaries-most of them Oblates-have spent winter after winter isolated from news, medical attention, supplies. Whether...