Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britons hold 95% ot the company's 2,492,224 ordinary shares. Few shares are Canadian-owned, although the bulk of the company's business is in Canada. Between the stockholders in Britain and the operating personnel in Canada, Sir Patrick is the chief link...
...said last week it does not have enough oil for an "emergency." Some Congressmen raised a hullabaloo over exports of oil to Russia, but these were a negligible factor. The services are short of oil chiefly because the oil companies: 1) get a better price from motorists than from bulk sales to the Government, and 2) are in a competitive "brand name" fight for the U.S. market. To eke out its supply, the Navy plans to import an extra 3,400,000 bbl. from the Persian Gulf...
...will, Bachelor Ackland had left over a million dollars, the bulk of his fortune, to Duke University for an art museum. If Duke refused it, the money was to go to the University of North Carolina. In third place was Rollins; but after his visit to Rollins, William Ackland was thinking of moving it up to first...
...would never seem so far off as now, Vag mused. He watched the dispirited retreat of Sturtevant's bulk and felt only compassion. In spite of himself he was reminded of a wounded elephant's search for the graveyard...
...mark the horrible . . . photograph of me with the smart caption: "Anticipation!" You might better have used that caption on a mass photograph of the starving Italian children, to whom I have turned over the entire huge bulk of my Italian royalties. Or on a group of flood-wrecked British farmers, to whom I gave a great portion of my Brit ish royalties, or on a photograph of French blind veterans, who are happier today for my contribution. Or on many sections of the American unfortunate, to whom I give over 20% of my gross earnings as a writer every year...