Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Contracts for 70% of the Army's $2,000,000,000 ordnance program have been placed, but bulk production is at least 15 months away. Light-tank production now amounts to 100 a month; medium and heavy tanks will not roll from the plants before next...
...Contracts have been let for the bulk (more than $9,000,000,000) of a little over $12,000,000,000 in Army-Navy funds. Said Mr. Knudsen: ". . . Some time late next spring or early summer we will have something to show." "Miles ahead, miles behind." Last week the business-minded McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.'s Factory Management & Maintenance examined U. S. defense, printed these conclusions...
...bulk of the registering was done in the morning before 9 o'clock and after classes. It was virtually completed by 3 o'clock. With 30 registrars working all times in each place, there were never any lines. The average rate was two per registrar per hour although certain faculty wives, most noticeably Mrs. Dora Marshall, were pressed...
...same old pack to deal out this Cabinet, Churchill then dealt his own Conservative Party a pat hand in the new inner War Cabinet. By adding Bevin he had three Laborites and three Conservatives in the innermost council of the British Empire. But the Conservative Party controls the bulk of Britain's wealth and a two-thirds Parliamentary majority (frozen while the war lasts). So the Conservative Prime Minister upped his War Cabinet to eight, added Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood and Sir John Anderson. This brought the standing of Britain's controlling body to three...
...answer to the first question is that as far as the Slavic department is concerned, the University is losing on the deal. The bulk of Simmons' work was in the English department, and for their share of his time the Slavic department annually footed a bill of about eight hundred dollars. And presumably Professor Lednicki will get paid at least three times this amount...