Word: whopper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year the crop will be a whopper: 481 million bu., double last year's. One reason is a new hybrid seed; another is better irrigation. But the biggest is a wide loophole in the soil-bank law which permitted U.S. farmers to plant more acres in sorghum than ever before and collect price supports on much...
Like fishermen trolling in strange water, atomic physicists send instruments groping through the earth's upper atmosphere to trap whatever happens to come by. Last week scientists at the University of Minnesota reported that they had caught a whopper: a helium nucleus moving a shade slower than the speed of light with a force at least 150,000 times as powerful as the greatest energy produced by man-the 6 billion electron volts whirled out by the University of California's bevatron...
...years ago. Happy for Pauline, too. Berney told the fascinated Miss Goebel that he was a manufacturer of TV antennas, and was about to embark upon the production of a revolutionary device called the "Modulator." Wide-eyed, Pauline listened to Harold's story-and a real whopper it was. Harold had been in touch with officials of the planet Venus. Matter of fact, he had visited Venus in a flying saucer. And after two wonderful visits with his Venutian hosts, he had won the honor of presiding over the earthly development of the Modulator, which could collect energy-much...
...recognition was long overdue. Catini, little known in the U.S., is a whopper of a corporation by any standard. It is Italy's No. 2 corporation (after Fiat), and one of the world's top ten chemical firms. It has 60.000 employees. 167 plants and mines, 60 subsidiaries. 200,000 stockholders, assets of more than $600 million. From the Alps to Sicily, it straddles Italy's economy, producing 57% of the .country's aluminum (35,000 tons), 89% of its pyrites (1,200,000 tons), 80% of its bauxite, 64% of its phosphates, the majority...
...limit himself on his job. Now he asserts that he has for some weeks been fulfilling all the duties of the Presidency. The fact is that he has not. If he had, there would not have been the fiasco about the tanks for Saudi Arabia, nor the Dulles whopper about the Russian defeat and retreat all over the world, nor the deep silence about the mounting race crisis in the South, nor the complete absence of an American policy on Israel and the Middle East. If this is a test of working at full capacity, then God help America...