Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Motors' Moraine City plant, which had been making 6-29 propellers, pushed out its first refrigerators. WPB was still wondering how much reconversion would be permitted before V-J day when the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Next week, the armed services sent 30,000 telegrams, canceling the bulk of war contracts. For industry, the war was finally over...
Snafu. To make all this worse, the housing muddle was no nearer a solution than it had been on V-J day. With Government controls removed, the bulk of available labor and materials were going into industrial building. Only 37,000 houses had even been started; many had not got beyond the foundations...
...implement the proposals, the U.S. will call a meeting next spring of some 15 "nuclear nations" who do the great bulk of the world's trade. Purpose of the meeting: to cut tariffs as much as possible, lay the foundations for a conference to establish ITO next summer...
...this field the year's outstanding event was the publishing of the first two volumes of The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray (TIME, Dec. 3). It contained the bulk of Thackeray's correspondence and private papers which had never before been made public. Other outstanding books...
...fashionable London clergyman. These somewhat Elizabethan lapses have been whispered about. But they could never be fully confirmed. Reason: before his death, Thackeray told his daughter, Anne, to see to it that there were no Thackeray biographies. She did-by the simple expedient of locking away the bulk of her father's correspondence and other vital data...