Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year business was partly luck, mostly hard work and sound business sense. When he got a chance to head his own twelve-piece band in 1940, Monroe gave up his concert ambitions, trained with a vocal coach for four months to tone his big voice down to dance-hall size. At the same time he mapped out his strategy for winning the public. One important campaign detail: constant caravaning through the hinterlands...
...look at Yale. With a squad of approximately the same size, 21 states are represented. More important, with the exception of Connecticut no single state has more than five representatives, while nine send more than one apiece...
With a loan from Marshall Field, Williams bought the decrepit old (105 years) monthly Southern Farmer in Montgomery, Ala. for an estimated $100,000. The tabloid-size Farmer, which looks more like a newspaper than a magazine, had long been against the New Deal and for white supremacy, delighted the "red necks" with its waving of the bloody shirt...
When the Department of Justice went after the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. with an antitrust suit two months ago (TIME, Sept. 26), it thought it had a popular target. The trustbusters thought that small grocers would be glad to see the A & P chopped down to size. Last week A & P happily produced evidence that the trustbusters might have guessed wrong. In full-page newspaper ads in 1,800 cities...
...remainder of the Houses, in the order of their size, are: Winthrop, 394 residents and 64 non-residents; Kirkland 365 residents and 70 non-residents; Adams, 362 residents and 63 non-residents; Dunster, 357 residents and 61 non-residents; and Leverett, 357 residents and 57 non-residents...