Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...management conference in Boston, Eccles said bluntly: "It can hardly be contended, with reason, that the credit gates should be opened now," though single payment loans, charge accounts, soft goods and minor durable goods might soon be freed from restrictions. But major durable goods, accounting for "the great dollar bulk of consumer credit," said Chairman Eccles, would remain under Federal Reserve control indefinitely...
...veteran of 21 months service in the Pacific and a member of no veterans' organization, I want to register my contempt for ex-Legion Commander Stelle's demagoguery. His declaration that "the veteran comes first and the citizen second" reflects the state of thinking on which the bulk of the world's troubles rest. It is the condition of mind which seeks good only for self...
...trees out from under them. But Dr. von Koenigswald says there were always plenty of trees in southeast Asia. His giants just got too heavy for Tarzan tactics. When snapping branches dumped them too often, they took to solid ground, armed themselves with stone axes. Then, not needing bulk for protection, they shrank to handier size...
...benefit of the University, there is obviously an inequitable distribution of seats. If they are for the entertainment of the community, a public sale would assure skeptical Harvardmen that they are of no lower artistic perceptibility than the large-limousine set. Controlling the assignment of the bulk of the tickets, the University could; without offending its faculty and friends, include a greater percentage of students among the select Sanders spectators...
...bulk of Joy is composed of argument and counterargument, so abstruse that a majority of readers may feel that...