Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reviewed all European requests in the light of certain basic strategic assumptions. Among them: 1) "The U.S. will be charged with the strategic bombing . . . The first priority of the joint defense is our ability to deliver the atomic bomb." 2) "England, France, and the closer countries will have the bulk of the short-range attack bombardment and air defense." 3) "The hard core of the ground power in being will come from Europe." The program, Bradley said, was "an opportunity to gain, at a minimum expense, additional measures for our own security...
...increase of Western Europe's arms production without upping the total military budgets of the five nations. This could be done by assigning the bulk of certain standardized items to those nations which can make them most cheaply-for example, small arms to Belgium...
...billion for foreign aid (the bulk...
Then Murphy brought on Amos C. Feehan, an FBI expert who testified that the great bulk of these exhibits had been copied on Hiss's typewriter. Feehan pointed professorially to enlargements of the documents, pointed out the "upthrust terminating stroke of the lower-case V " and other peculiarities as proof of his finding. It was effective evidence and it was also dull. But as the weekend drew near Murphy called a witness who restored the electric atmosphere in which the trial had begun...
...Neither Claire nor L.M., a coexecutor, share in their father's estate. The bulk, $430,000, will go to the Bank of America-Giannini Foundation, an educational fund for employees of the bank and other Giannini business connections. Various other charities will get $41,000, nine individuals $1,000 apiece...