Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...measured in such figures as 100,000 planes (far more than all the rest of the world's), 737 billion railroad ton miles (half of all the world's), 60,000,000 tons of shipping (two-thirds of all the world's). These symbols of bulk power no longer had the same significance...
This week 30,000 telegrams tersely can celing the bulk of Army war contracts were ready to be sent to U.S. industry...
...Collectors. Reparations were keyed to economic control. The Potsdam conference adopted a plan drawn up by a Big Three commission in Moscow, providing that the bulk of reparations was to come out of Germany's present industrial equipment. By these removals, Germany's basic industrial capacity would be reduced to a calculated point - one at which the German living standard would be no higher than that of the average European...
...drop of water were enlarged to the size of the earth, each atom in it would be about the size of an orange. Yet most of an atom is empty space through which the electrons whirl. The nucleus itself occupies only one million-billionth of the atom's bulk...
After putting it off for a year, the U.S. had to face a new kind of problem in D.P.s-displaced persons. The problem was small in bulk-only 970 war refugees were affected. But it gave some U.S. citizens a glimpse of what Europe-which counts its displaced persons in the millions-now has on its hands...