Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...population have no idea what forms the bulk of Canadian production (food and raw materials) while 17% believe it consists of manufactured articles. (Only 38% of U.S. farmers know that, next to the U.S., Canada is the biggest wheat producer in the hemisphere...
...Rundstedt had still more hidden reserves to commit to battle, he might possibly try to cut in behind the First and destroy the bulk of it, roll up the three other Allied armies to the north, recapture Antwerp and even wheel back into France. These were high stakes indeed, and the Germans' chances seemed correspondingly small...
...talk of free international trade is more idealistic than realistic. Most European businessmen know that the bulk of their foreign trade must for some time be carried on by their governments through some form of government control and support. Many an industry must be nationalized, if only to keep it running till the knotty question of ownership, tangled by the Nazis' financial sabotage of Europe's economy, is cleared...
...tuberculosis. Citing last year's project in Cambridge industry when 5,000 workers were X-rayed in cooperation with labor and management, she emphasized that the Association places the most importance on "finding the symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis early. This enables us," added Miss Brown, "to reverse the bulk of the cases before they become serious...
...Left does not like the trend. But the bulk of the F.F.I, still supports General de Gaulle, and Gaullist Regular Army men make a policy of appreciating F.F.I. services. Last week, while Colonel Rol-Tanguy was being whittled down, another F.F.I, colonel, Jacquot, received a medal and a Gallic kiss, for gallantry in action, from the French First Army's General Delattre de Tassigny. Nevertheless the F.F.I, remains wary. Last week they complained about lack of weapons for Maquis still fighting Germans in western France. Growled the Communist Humanité: "Is that fifth-column work in Paris...