Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the "huge, dropsical monster" known as the Associated Gas & Electric System was finally driven into reorganization proceedings in 1940, 40% of its billion-dollar bulk turned out to be bookkeeping water. Last week, as the fabulous reorganization was ended, more water was struck. Manhattan's Federal Judge Vincent L. Leibell angrily said that fees asked by 72 lawyers and assorted utilities experts for the five-year job of dehydrating the monster were themselves heavily watered...
Many heads of departments and full professors are actively engaged in research. As an inevitable consequence, the bulk of the tutorial burden has traditionally fallen on the younger men of the Faculty. The majority of them instructors, such men are either on a one-year appointment basis, or have succeeded to a five-year appointment. At the end of eight years in residence, they must make permanent tenure or go elsewhere...
...wars-excessive tariffs, quotas, embargoes, preferences, subsidies, licenses, exchange controls, clearing agreements, barter deals. But Will Clayton failed to say that the U.S.-British declaration of last December is as far as ever from implementation. In December Clayton had said that the 16 "nuclear nations" who do the great bulk of the world's trade would meet this spring to cut tariffs and plan the establishment this summer of an International Trade Organization (ITO) as part of U.N. If Truman and Byrnes had decided to postpone this meeting, it would mean that the list of 2,000 U.S. commodities...
Giannini allowed none of this to interfere with his joy in the simple life. Mornings he lay all but naked atop a bathhouse, his sun-blackened, 6 ft. 1½in., 215-lb. bulk streaming inelegant rivulets of sweat. He swam, indulged himself in a rubdown, sat up with a towel around his ample middle to address those around him in .a hoarse, booming voice...