Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bulk of the diesel orders has gone to General Motors' Electro-Motive Division, which last week got an $11,000,000 chunk of the Central order (the rest went to American Locomotive and Fairbanks, Morse). G.M. was ahead in diesel locomotives chiefly because it was the first to adapt the heavy diesel engine effectively to passenger and freight locomotives...
...Fashionable Trails. Criticism flourished in 1947-at least in quantity. The very bulk of it was perhaps a reflection of the time's aridity...
...Lend-Lease supplies (to which Russia had taken title before the congressional deadline last January). Another $32 million was in supplies turned over to UNRRA before U.S. contributions were stopped for Europe in March. By midsummer, both Lend-Lease and UNRRA exports had all but stopped. The bulk of Russia's purchases had been made in the free American market;* in return, the U.S. had got such needed imports as manganese and chrome, such luxuries as sables and Persian lamb...
...other "Kaffirs" (gold shares), British investors assumed that New Union, the holding company, promised similar windfall profits. They gobbled up some ?750,000 worth of New Union stock, soon bid the 5 shilling shares up to 32 shillings. What the investors did not realize was that the bulk of the New Union income no longer came from its operating property, but from the sale of stocks and options. New Union was living on its capital. Last summer the capital began...
...believes that results of a new election would show his followers to comprise the bulk of non-extremist popular strength in Greece today...