Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bright & early next morning Corfiotes heard the familiar drone of planes, saw a squadron of 100 circling over the skeletons of their gutted Byzantine churches and the grey bulk of the old Venetian fortress. To greet its captors, the city broke out a swastika flag. Then a seaplane landed and out stepped ten Italian officers, two Italian journalists. While other planes wheeled menacingly overhead, they came ashore, claimed the island for Italy...
...apparently organizing his defenses well inside Egypt, at Matrûh, hoping to be able to break the Axis advance from behind them. But there is a difference between the Italians and the Germans. The Italians attacked along the sea, in range of the Royal Navy. The bulk of the Axis divisions (more than three, perhaps as many as eight) are expected to advance on a wide front, perhaps deep in the desert. The Italians are sensible men who have read military history and feel that classical logistics and lines of communications are very important; the Germans are heretics...
...brother had begun trying to sell the public 75,000 (later increased to 200,000) of the 500,000 shares of Esquire-Coronet, Inc. Offered at $16 a share, the stock fell to $7 in May 1938. According to the indictment last week, the Smarts disposed of the bulk of 153,000 shares between May and September 1938-a sale on which the Smarts realized $1,075,000. During that time the stock rose from 7 to 12¼ (last week's pre-indictment low: 2⅝). Among the public who got burned was President Roosevelt...
...Britain last week (see p. 15) caught U.S. ship lines in the midst of their busiest, most harassed period in history. On all the seven seas except the North Atlantic, U.S. shipping has tried to take over from the flagging British the great task of moving the bulk of the world's freight. Before war began the U.S. overseas fleet (then 1,749,689 active tons, 87% over age) often ran almost empty on its Government subsidies, carried only around 30% of the nation's foreign trade. But by last week almost all of Britain...
...been fighting day & night for two weeks straight, tumbled into ditches as the Nazi strafers made at them, then scrambled up to pot the advancing tanks or bayonet their way out of traps. As the forces fell back toward wedge-shaped Attica, it became evident that the bulk of them could get clear only if the rearguard made a magnificent stand. Sir Thomas decided that historic Thermopylae pass was the spot. He ordered the chosen few: "Every man must now do his job with strong determination. Select positions with care, and so prevent the enemy from coming down...