Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan's great war industry was creaking. Its shipbuilding industry is crippled for lack of steel. Every gallon of aviation fuel burned by Japanese planes is irreplaceable. The bulk of the 5,000,000-ton Japanese merchant fleet is tied up. Economic strangulation is on the way. And every day that passes means that China is stronger, that the Dutch, the British, U.S. possessions are more nearly impregnable...
This was news that the British were delighted to hear last week from the U.S. Maritime Commission. But the bulk of the Maritime Commission's new ships will be followed by few seamen's benedictions as they...
...this modified sort, namely holding the present Allied lines, we have a definite basis on which some sort of a world can be planned. The crucial question in the stalemate peace, or armistice, that would result is what happens to Germany. The picture of military domination over the bulk of Europe is not pretty, but it seems to me that there are considerable grounds to think it will not be as completely dark as the past eight years of Germany's dynamic advance have made us believe. With the scope of the army definitely checked, the regime must become static...
Left. To Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, Manhattan surgeon, tropical explorer: the bulk of an estate assessed last week at $14,081,348.66; by his wife, Eleanor Elkins Rice, whose first husband was the late Philadelphia multimillionaire George Dunton Widener. Left in trust, the estate will go at Dr. Rice's death to his late wife's son and daughter by Widener...
...Steele French eloped with the family chauffeur; in 1923 son Francis Ormond French (whose daughter, Ellen, married John Jacob Astor in 1934) became a cab driver, in 1938 applied for a WPA job. Left. By the late Simon Guggenheim, copper tycoon: to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the bulk of his estate, not yet estimated; to his widow, Olga Hirsh Guggenheim, a $100,000 annuity from a $2,000,000 trust fund; to numerous relatives, friends, institutions, about...