Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected the House to pass the budget, the whole budget, and nothing but the budget. The Government decided to regard a Conservative motion against abolition of the McKenna duties (TIME, May 12) as a vote of censure. As the Government has the undivided support of Labor and a great bulk of the Liberal Party, there was no chance of its falling. The Chancellor described Conservative agitation against the budget as "ramping, raging, tearing propaganda...
...After various sinking funds shall have been cared for, covering the return of the main Government investment, the Government shall receive the bulk of the profits, which proportion after ten years shall amount to 75% to the Government and 25% to the company on fertilizer...
...work yesterday consisted entirely of preliminary conditioning, in which general calisthenics, rope skipping and passing the medicine ball occupied the bulk of the time. The workout lasted about an hour, and after a turn around the Stadium, Coach Fisher called...
...success of Hugo Stinnes was due to chance and hard work. It was said of him that he "always invested his funds and hated men and money which remained idle." Herr Stinnes did not hate himself-he was busy, eternally busy. The bulk of his fortune was made during the War in supplying munitions to the Army, in exploiting Belgium during the long German occupation and in taking advantage of Germany's financial ruin. Before the War he was worth about $7,500,000 and some believe that he increased his wealth 100-fold during the past decade...
...present the bulk of cigarette manufacturing is done by three interests in the order named: British-American Tobacco Co., Nanyang Brothers, the Tobacco Products Export Co. The second named concern represents Chinese capital, the other two British and American. About 80% of the tobacco used by Chinese cigarette factories is grown...