Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fresh from its first national convention in Philadelphia last weekend with a politically significant leadership embracing U. S. labor's bulk strength, Americans for Democratic Action discovers that it stands in a necessarily frustrated position for a year of electioneering. In 1948 the "third force" has little choice but to support Harry Truman...
...Imperial German-Navy, young Niemöller had thrilled to Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles, played on the ship's phonograph while torpedoes from his submarine tore the bottoms from Allied ships. When Hitler rose to power, Niemöller rejected Nazi racism, but accepted the bulk of Nazi authoritarian. doctrine, and did not rebel until Hitler encroached on his church. His defiance cost him eight years in Hitler's concentration camps. Yet, twice during his internment-which earned him a reputation as Protestantism's outstanding martyr to the Nazis-Niemöller unsuccessfully asked to serve...
...Space limitations make such a plan impossible, however, a fact which creates the difficulty of deciding which courses should be described and which should not. Probably the most sensible way out of this difficulty would be to describe all courses which have no prerequisite. This system would cover the bulk of "distribution" courses. And, since it is reasonable to assume that most undergraduates are familiar with their own field of concentration and are no likely to take advanced courses in other highly specialized fields, the distributions courses are the most important to describe. The system would also conserve a certain...
...routine coverage mostly, operations which simply do not matter. Actually, the long habits of make-up, of a daily multitude of short stories carefully balanced according to the form book, have prevented editors from preparing and writing longer, thoughtful pieces about matters that seem important to the bulk of its readers...
...rosy predictions there was one big imponderable-the European Recovery Plan. The final shape of ERP would do more than anything else to shape the economy in 1948. Against 1947's exports, the demands for ERP for the first 15 months, as drafted by the President, did not bulk overlarge. The biggest dollar item of all-food and feed-was 27% less (by volume) than the U.S. shipped abroad in the last 15 months. Iron & steel (3,104,000 metric tons) totaled only 37% of the last 15 months' exports; fuel was 80%; the $378,200,000 worth...