Word: bulked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army, authorized to add 133,000 men and build to a new strength of 1,000,000 will take the bulk of the draftees. Specialists now on active duty will also be persuaded to reenlist. And for the balance, a predicted 40,000 will be drawn from the Ready Reserve. The Air Force has been authorized an additional 63,000 men, will take most from the Ready Reserve. The Navy, increasing its strength by 29,000, will also draw from reserves and held-over specialists, will accept enlistments but no draftees at present. The Marines, with 15,000 more combat...
...many maladies that afflict Latin American nations, one of the most worrisome is their dependence on one or two fragile commodities for the bulk of their export income. Last week, in Latin American Business Highlights, the Chase Manhattan Bank examined the dimensions of the malady. Of the 20 Latin American nations, 14 depend on one commodity for at least 50% of their export income (see chart). In two other cases, a pair of commodities bring in more than half the export earnings...
...story on the New Haven. The line went into Section 77 bankruptcy in 1935 and was still heavy with Depression-incurred debt when it emerged in 1947. At the throttle then was ironhanded Frederic C. Dumaine. who had a simple method of cutting costs: he sacked the bulk of top-salaried employees -which left the New Haven with a chronic shortage of competent executives. In 1954, after a debilitating proxy war, rambunctious Patrick B. McGinnis came in as president; he spent millions to develop futuristic trains and passed out lavish dividends on New Haven preferred stock. When McGinnis departed...
...Seafarers International Union, headed by freighter-sized (220 lbs.) Paul Hall. The S.I.U. centers its power on Atlantic and Gulf Coast tankers and other bulk cargo ships...
When Bon Vivant Georges Lurcy died in Manhattan in 1953, the Paris-born banker who had prospered as a House of Rothschild protege left an estate that included three houses and a famed art collection. After the bulk of his gallery was auctioned off for $2,200,000, Lurcy's trustees were able to provide a $150,000 annual income for his childless widow, Alice Snow Barbee Lurcy, a former Paris nightclub chorine once described by an art critic friend as "staggeringly beautiful, something between Rubens and Renoir." But last week, after the trust managers had sold her five...