Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side crushes the other. The progress of the campaigns indicates a slow victory for the rebels; indeed Italy could never allow a Communist country to dominate the western Mediterranean. If the war works itself out, General Franco may become the military head of an impoverished country with the bulk of the working class opposed and the nations which sent him troops clamoring for return favors. Another powder barrel may be put in the magazine of Europe. The alternative is an armistice while the outcome of the war is still in doubt, and the erection of a moderate government to avoid...
...Passed a House resolution extending the time for making tax returns on windfall taxes (the "unjust enrichment tax" to collect the bulk of the invalidated AAA processing taxes which processors had already passed on to the public). Sent it to the President who signed it two days before the tax returns were...
Eminently successful was Mr. Babst, for American Sugar in 59 grades and 269 different kinds of packages now sells around one-third of all sugar in the big U. S. bowl. Nevertheless, while Mr. Babst has changed U. S. sugar from a bulk to a packaged commodity in his long patriarchal rule, he has not forgotten his early law. Last week he mailed to his 21,000 stockholders an annual report which looked and read like a legal brief...
...peak week last December, Goliath General Motors Corp. produced 53,000 automobiles. Last week with all its 69 automobile plants closed or crippled by strikes, the world's largest motor manufacturer turned out a piddling 1,500 units, mostly trucks. The idle bulk of its 135,000 production employes continued last week, the fifth of the strike, to lose around $800,000 per day in wages. For the first time G. M.'s 330.000 stockholders felt the pinch as quarterly dividends were lopped from 50? to 25?-per share...
...Summit, N. J., when Police Sergeant Patrick J. Kelly collapsed at his desk eight men were required to lift his 429-lb. 6-ft.-11 -in. bulk into an ambulance. At the hospital Policeman Kelly, who has frequently expressed a desire to reach 500 lb., was advised against overeating...