Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lancashire cotton town one sunny day last week. From the car window Queen Elizabeth II smiled at her loyal Lancastrians and waved a gloved hand. It was the Queen's first state visit to the grimy industrial county where 5,000,000 sturdy English folk spin the bulk of Britain's cotton textiles, mine a goodly share of its coal. She had come with her husband Philip to shed a ray of royal hope in the one region of prosperous Britain that is visibly and chronically depressed. "Dark, Satanic Mills." Lancashire is not the tourists' England. Forty...
...Died. Vice Admiral C. A. F. ("Alphabet") Sprague, 59, veteran naval aviator, commander of the group of six escort carriers, three destroyers and four destroyer escorts that helped save the U.S. beachhead in the Philippines by turning back the bulk of the Japanese fleet in the Battle for Leyte Gulf in October, 1944; of a heart attack; in San Diego...
...cone once every 26,000 years. This precession is caused by the pull of the sun and the moon acting on the slightly nonspherical shape of the earth. Superimposed is a subtler wobble. The axis keeps steady in space, but over an uneven period of about one year, the bulk of the earth moves slightly in relation to the axis...
Complex exchange and import controls and the delicately balanced state of U.S. popularity in many nations block the sale of surpluses almost everywhere. Bulk buying contracts, such as the United Kingdom has for Argentine meat, often make it impossible for the U.S. to work into new markets. In Hong Kong there is a rule that 25% of the cotton used by the crown colony's mills must come from Commonwealth sources. When the U.S. offered to sell butter to France so that every schoolchild would get a pat of butter with his lunch. French dairymen objected...
...conventional TV picture tube, whose monstrous bubble of vacuum is responsible for most of the bulk of the TV cabinet, may be on its way out. Electronics men have long dreamed of shrinking the tube to a flat plate not much bigger than the picture. The latest Electronics describes one such tube. Designed by the Electronics Division of Willys Motors, it is in an advanced experimental stage (see diagram...