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Bombs not intended for cramming into a shell are probably heavier and bulkier for the sake of explosive efficiency, but even bombs to be dropped from planes may be made small and light. A B-36 on an intercontinental mission could carry not one but 50 or more such lightweight bombs...
...bulkier problem still was the return of China's refugees to their homes. For transporting the 25,000,000, the Central Government had only 29 tiny river steamers, 10,000 wooden junks, 1,000 to 3,000 trucks in various stages of decrepitude, four CNAC passenger planes. "It will be like emptying a lake with teaspoons," said a Chungking official. "We'll be in luck if we all get back in ten years...
...future five-foot shelf, it appears, may be no bulkier than a pack of playing cards...
...various systems will emerge from SEC's application of the holding-company "death sentence." Last March, SEC (after five years of litigation and shadowboxing) asked nine "scatterated" holding companies to prepare plans for compliance with the holding-company law. Since then, with more and bulkier briefs, the shadowboxing has continued...
...addition to the carrying of ordinary suitcases and trunks the Railway Express is the most efficient manner of sending larger and bulkier bundles to and from Cambridge. It is estimated that the normal work of this agency is quadrupled when Freshmen and upperclassmen all over the country get underway for their respective colleges...