Word: largest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Harvard's home town of Southwark, England, has honored President Conant by giving his name to the largest structure in its modern housing project. Conant House opened for occupancy February...
...peace platform. Hundreds of thousands of election posters have been shipped out, to be plastered on walls all over France. Say the posters: "Marshall-ized France has been dragged into a costly, dangerous and criminal policy of preparation for war." And, in the poster's largest lettering: "VOTE FOR PEACE...
...treaty of friendship. The treaty ended ten weeks of bickering over the invasion of Costa Rica from Nicaragua; it also symbolized the eclipse of the Caribbean Legion. In Nicaragua, Dictator "Tacho" Somoza celebrated the occasion by knocking off work on his sugar refinery (the country's largest) now abuilding on his Pacific coast barony at Montelimar...
Into the presidency of the rich Union Pacific, third largest U.S. railroad, stepped a railroader's railroader. At 53, tall, taciturn Arthur E. Stoddard had reached the top, after a typical railroader's climb from the very bottom...
...wares plentiful and cheap. He switched over to machine production, to step up output. Then he made a deal with Rexall Drug Inc. and 500 other stores, to sell 2,000,000 one-pound boxes at $1 a box this year, and with ABC Vending Corp., world's largest vendors of candy, to sell a 10? candy bar (Blum's first bar) in its slot machines...