Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody denied the statistics in the Murray report. But, actually completed in January and based largely on data covering only the years through 1944, it was open to criticism. Big business got the bulk of war contracts because it alone had the tools, technicians and resources to mass produce planes, tanks, etc. War's end and the disposal of surplus plants, notably, aluminum producers, has radically altered this picture in many places. Moreover, small businesses closed by war have reopened. Fortnight ago the Department of Commerce reported a net increase of 400,000 new firms in the last...
Those two events accounted for the bulk of the Crimson scoring. Seven points in other events told the whole story for the men from Cambridge. Vince Moriarty garnered one point with a fifth in the two mile, and in the mile relay, the team of Bill Ellis, John Edelman, Bernie O'Brien, and Bob Clark came in third...
London, Socialist Silkin smoothly explained, was smothering in its own amorphous bulk. To relieve congestion the Government planned a series of new satellite towns, each with its own factory, home and business districts divided by parklike "green belts." The population of Stevenage would rise from 6,000 to 60,000. It would lose the picture-book aspect it had worn since 1281, when it was chartered to the Abbot of St. Peter's, Westminster. Stevenage would be new, up-to-date...
...bulk of the team will have to be made up of men from last year's squad. Returnees, who played on the 1942 team, the last year of formal ball, are few and far between. Cleo O'Donnell, elected captain at the end of that season, will be back. So will Len Cummings, an end, and possibly guard Sid Smith. Willo and Jack Fisher will be around too. But that's just about all, with the possible exception of Wally Flynn and Pete Garland...
...powder is clay," explained the interpreter. "It comes from a mine far distant. It adds bulk and makes their meal more heavy...