Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boeing Aircraft Co., which made the war's biggest planes, also suffered one of its biggest ironies. Although its B-29s and B-17s carried the bulk of U.S. bombardment power, Boeing was hit harder by victory than any other plane maker. Within weeks after war's end, contract cancellations forced it to close its Seattle plant. Hope seemed to be grounded...
...discrepancy of the two stern facts loomed an old, notorious situation; since November 1945, UNRRA had poured $132,250,000 worth of food, machinery and various relief supplies, from fishing boats to water buffalo, into the country. But only a trickle had got where they were needed most. The bulk of the supplies piled up in warehouses, filtered down into the depths of the black market, enriched the morass of government corruption and "squeeze" (China's term for "honest graft...
...record shipments of cattle and pigs into stockyards all over the nation continued last week, but the big packers were in the market for the first time in months. Result: choice cattle prices in Chicago, which had sagged, went up to an alltime record of $25 a hundredweight. The bulk of the cattle sold for less, but the average price v. the OPA ceiling of $18, was still over $20. Result: up went retail meat prices all over the nation. New Yorkers paid as much as 50% above OPA for meat...
...reply to an investigation of a complaint that Fiske's charged 15 cents extra for pie-a-la-mode, Mrs. Fiske said that she had to pay $4.00 more a jug for cream, raising her bulk price of ice cream to $1.00 a quart...
...match for Falstaff. . . . I could not for my life avoid thinking of my mother . . . from her want of teeth, weather-beaten appearance in general, and from a kind of notion that ran in my head that nothing could have commenced at the size of infancy, and reached her present bulk in less than 35 or 40 years. . . . [But] no woman that I have seen, has a finer face . . . and in [mind] she was not inferior . . . to any with whom I had been acquainted. . . . I mustered my resolution and made the proposal to her direct; but shocking to relate, she answered...