Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shred of U. S. neutrality-the White House was flooded with messages, voicing approval in a ratio of 100-to-1. Even the Baltimore Sun's Frank Kent, bitter critic of the New Deal, wrote: "There can be no doubt that the President has voiced what the great bulk of Americans have in their hearts...
...spending money, Hearst had mortgaged San Simeon, his vast California estate. In 1938 it was announced that part of his $50,000,000-or-so accumulation of antiques and art objects would be offered for sale. The bulk of this vast, amorphous agglomeration reposed in warehouses-four of them in California, the fifth, a five-story, block-square structure, in The Bronx. It included collections of 504 different kinds of works of art, any one of which would have made an ordinary collector notable...
...Harry Oakes, Maine-born, Bowdoin-bred mining tycoon (Canadian gold) now living in Nassau, where income taxes are 5%. Unlike his colleagues, most of whom are longer on bullishness than on bullion, Sir Harry is so fabulously wealthy that he might well finance the bulk of the bonanza...
...Irwin Shaw's savage "Sailor off the Bremen" and the incredibly sinister "Wet Saturday" of John Collier. One explanation--perhaps minor, but none the less interesting--suggests itself: the collection represents fifteen and a half years, in that some of the stories actually go back to 1925; but the bulk of the material was published between 1934 or '35 and 1940. The second world war is in several of the stories, and touches many more. This is literature of the generation born a little too late to be lost...
...importance of this fact was that last year the Army, fed up with the air resistance of air-cooled radial engines (their "built in head winds''), all but abandoned them for fast fighter craft, ordered the bulk of its fighters equipped with Allison 1,090-h.p. liquid-cooled inline engines. Meanwhile Pratt & Whitney and Wright Aeronautical, top-flight U. S. engine builders, stuck to air-cooled radials (which in-line engine men scornfully call "starfish") and increased their power. Result: Pratt & Whitney is in production with a tremendous single package of power: a 2,000-h.p. 18-cylinder...