Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foreign enterprises have been discriminated against. By currency manipulation the Japanese increased their share of the important egg export market from 5% last year to 80% this, of walnut meat, another important item, from 2% to 60%. By intimidation they have gained practically the entire bulk of another important export commodity-bristles...
...bulk of chiropodic practice consists of corn trimming. Last week Podiatrists James S. Bowman and Robert E. Fowler of Temple University School reported a new way of removing corns by injection. They inject solutions of a bismuth compound or salt water or even sterile water around the margin of the corn, thus choking off the tiny blood vessels which feed it. After several injections, the corn dissolves. This treatment, they cautioned, is still in an experimental stage...
...fertile plains toward the east coast grew a lot of Britain's food. And into the east coast ports was brought a large bulk of the enormous fish haul with which Britain pieced out her imported food supply. But it was of the industrial Midlands that Adolf Hitler thought when he swore he would destroy Great Britain. They not only symbolized, they constituted, the Britain which dominated world trade. They built and supported the British Fleet, protected the empire. London is where warlike Winston Churchill lives and leads the British people. But Birmingham is where tradesman-like Neville Chamberlain...
Scarcely had Heywood Broun's genial, untidy bulk been laid in its grave last winter when the American Newspaper Guild, which he had founded, burst into a bedlam of argument and dissension, like a roomful of children whose teacher has departed. Charges that the Guild was ruled by a handful of Communists and fellow travelers came to a head last month at the Guild convention in Memphis (TIME, July 22) when rebellious Guildsmen tried in vain to install a new regime...
...said the $1,000,000 Astor yacht Nourmahal might take them to Nassau. The British liner Britannic took 15 more pieces of Windsor luggage to Manhattan last week, whence they will be shipped to Nassau, but the Duke was said to have had to abandon in France the bulk of his official luggage, trunkfuls of uniforms and cases of stars and orders...