Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rather than crack the Coalition at mid-invasion (and probably commit party suicide). Greenwood & Co. simply resolved not to vote. Labor Minister Ernest Bevin propelled his big bulk across the House floor, stopped in front of Greenwood Grated Bevin: "So you won't vote, eh?" Greenwood grinned at him, turned with a grin to the nearly 200 Laborites ranged behind him, sat tight. So did they. Once again, they were in revolt against their own leaders in the Government...
...direction of India's postwar trade will depend on Britain's balance of trade: if Britain has a favorable balance and can spare foreign exchange, India will get her share and can trade with it where she will. Otherwise, India will be forced to do the bulk of this trading with England...
Ubico claims to protect the humble, peaceful Indians who form the bulk of the Guatemalan population (total: 3,284,269). Actually, he grants these subjects no rights at all, controls them by arbitrary vagrancy laws, makes them work three weeks a year for the State for nothing. Hundreds of these forced Indian laborers have died on a road which Ubico is pushing through the pestilential jungles of Peten...
...Roman Catholic charger. There are 20 million Catholics in this country, and the great bulk of them think and vote as their Church advises. Their vote determines any close election. They have been told that General Franco is defending their faith against atheistic Reds...
...Hendershot wrote: "Granting stock options to officials of corporations is beginning to be almost a habit. . . . The wave of options (other terms are used in many instances) currently being proposed are designed chiefly to avoid income taxes. If salaries are increased for those already drawing down large amounts, the bulk of the increase would be paid in taxes. . . . These companies evidently believe that through these stock options, capital gains can be created, in which event the tax is only...