Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance came shortly after World War I. Sears, Roebuck, which had been printing its own catalogue, got fed up with the job. John Cuneo landed the fat contract. Overnight, it turned his bookbindery into a big business. Cuneo went right on expanding, although he no longer does the bulk of Sears printing...
This outbreak was exactly what President Velasco had tried to avoid. A leftist, he had, nevertheless, acted with moderation. He believed that Ecuador vitally needed reforms, especially on the great estates where the Indians (the bulk of the population) lived in virtual serfdom. But he knew that too-drastic reforms might provoke conservatives to open reaction. Last week the Assembly was still trying to agree on a constitution. But most Ecuadorians wished that it, too, would quietly go home, and leave to President Velasco the ticklish job of cleaning up Ecuador's economic system...
Primitive farming practices, lack of tools and transportation were partly to blame. But the chief reason was the system of land tenure. In most of the countries, the bulk of the land was in large estates. The owners, generally absentees, paid little attention to the food needs of their peons, or of the nation as a whole. Much good land lay idle, held for speculation. Land taxes were nonexistent, or too low to force the owners to cultivate their acres efficiently...
...opinion of many a U.S. businessman, this uncompromising attitude is only half a solution. It leaves unsolved the problem of developing a booming postwar trade with cartel-minded nations. Last week, the potent National Foreign Trade Council, Inc., whose 700 members expect to do the bulk of this trading, put out its own solution...
Struggle for Survival. Those problems are staggering. Veterans Administrator Frank T. Hines told the convention that some 1,160,000 servicemen plan to go to college as soon as they are discharged. But the bulk of prospective veteran students are also best suited for military occupation overseas. The college boom will therefore be postponed 18 months beyond the end of the war. Meantime conscription would delay by a year the college entrance of able-bodied 18-year-olds. Already financially hard-pressed by depleted civilian enrollment and the gradual ending of military training contracts, many small U.S. colleges will...