Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such tools cannot be used for tanks, for example, because tanks aren't the same shape and are made of tough armor. So the great bulk of Detroit's tools cannot be converted. Some of the great body presses set on deep foundations and too heavy to move are being walled up. Other tools-spot-welding machines, great dies and fixtures-single-purpose tools built for one operation to produce one particular product and good for nothing else-are being hauled out to the parking lots, covered with grease and heavy paper, abandoned for the duration...
Last week the balance of power and responsibility within the British Commonwealth of Nations shifted. The Dominions loomed a little larger, London a little smaller. It was a slight shift; the bulk of the power to make war decisions and nearly all the responsibility remained in London; but any change at all foretold greater ones to come...
Left. By Circusman John Ringling; to the State of Florida: some $20,000,000, the bulk of his estate. A $5,000 annuity was left to a sister, Ida Ringling North, in a codicil to an original will that left her half the estate...
...book is important in another respect. One bar to understanding Latin America has been the failure of the U.S. imagination before the sheer physical bulk and vastness of the southern continent. The mind recoils from the cold massiveness of the Cordilleras, bogs down in tropical swamps half as big as the U.S., is lost on Rivers of Doubt 3,000 miles long. What has been needed is a sympathetic human figure on a scale and of a piece with the continent, and embodying something of its volcanic fierceness. Such a figure is Simon Bolivar...
...Administration emphasized that these new Yardlings are all students who received their certificates of admission last June with the bulk of their class, but for various reasons were unable to attend College in September. No effort has been made to enroll additional students since last spring, but any student holding a certificate and desiring February admission has been allowed to enter...