Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...I.T.U. last week held its 89th national convention. Mild-eyed President Woodruff Randolph,*55, laid the new policy on the line: the union would obey the letter of the law, but it would as soon give up the ghost as the closed shop it had won from the bulk of the U.S. press (some exceptions: the open-shop Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Bulletin, John H. Perry's Florida chain...
Planners figured that the scheme would more than double present commercial production, would also mean development of new planes capable of handling heavy bulk loads. The services would benefit directly by tagging all federal-subsidized planes as part of the military reserve...
...more than a year, Baker sweated out the bulk of these new covers. Then, Artzybasheff and Boris Chaliapin came along to contribute their respective talents. Tasker was, and is, liaison man, interpreting his and the editors' ideas to the artists and vice versa. With Baker's third cover (April 24, 1939) a symbolic swastika was inserted in the background of the Heinrich Himmler portrait. From that time on interpretive symbolism has been an increasingly significant part of the cover-to help identify portraits not immediately familiar to everybody, and to highlight the cover subjects' current news value...
...dull "Question Time." It was just ending when Clement Attlee slipped in, scarcely noticed. Ernest Bevin, for one, did not see him. Bevin was on his feet answering a foreign policy question. Attlee slid down the bench just in time to avoid his Foreign Secretary's 240-lb. bulk as Bevin took a pace back, prepared to sit down...
Foreign traders hoped that U.S. loans under the "Marshall approach" would bolster exports. But the nations which have been buying the bulk of U.S. exports-Latin America and Canada-are outside the scope of the plan. They would be helped only indirectly through trade with those who might get loans. But any loans were too far in the future to be of any immediate help. This week, the British Government, convinced that no U.S. relief was in sight this year, is considering cutting its imports by another...