Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flickering motion picture could be a dramatic form with sweep and magnificence. M.G.M's Louis B. Mayer ran a cheap variety theater in Haverhill, Mass, into a cinema empire. Oilman Edward L. Doheny, a gold prospector from Tombstone, Ariz., found a fortune beneath his feet and exploited the vast oil wealth of Los Angeles. Donald Douglas and "Dutch" Kindel-berger built air armadas, and restless Henry Kaiser, fabricator of dams & ships, gave southern California its first complete steel plant...
...Angeles still had a vast supply of its most precious and vital commodity-water. It drew 255 million gallons a day from the Owens River. With its adjoining towns it sucked too million gallons through a 392-mile aqueduct from the Colorado River; despite the bitter interstate dispute between California and Arizona over the river's output, Los Angeles expected to tap the Colorado more freely in the future...
...Mexico complained that the U.S. already owned 54,000 square miles-about 44% of the state's total area*-counting seven national forests, a national park, the vast Los Alamos atomic energy layout and the Armed Forces Special Weapons installation east of Albuquerque...
Felix Frankfurter, Vienna-born, oldest in years (66), who as a professor at the Harvard Law School in the '30s hatched out a brood of young New Deal pundits, and as a justice is a bouncing, argumentative, brilliant little man planted firmly on the roost of his vast knowledge...
While I write at Mr. Conant's suggestion, I do so only as an individual--although I do believe that my convictions are held by the vast majority of Harvard...