Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prefabricated ports which were towed across the Channel, and which were first publicly described last fortnight (TIME, Oct. 23), sluiced the bulk of invasion supplies ashore. But that was only the first stage of delivery. U.S. engineers have now rebuilt 1,500 miles of French railroads and 100 rail bridges which had been wrecked by pre-invasion bombing, by saboteurs or by the fleeing enemy. Much U.S. rolling stock has been put ashore, but 60% of the locomotives and freight cars are French, Italian, Dutch, Belgian and German. Some old U.S. freight cars left in France after the last...
...American Tobacco deal will climax two months of day & night work for investment bankers. They timed the bulk of their financing to fall between the Fifth War Loan in July and the Sixth War Loan drive in November. Since the first of the year, bondmen have marketed more than $2 billion of corporates and municipals-the largest total since...
...first year after Germany quits, and if Japan is still fighting, the rising scale of cutbacks for the U.S. will average 32% (maximum: 40%). For the West Coast, the average will be "something more" than 25%. The lower percentage is due to the hard fact that the bulk of the weapons still needed to fight Japan (i.e., B-29 and B-32 bombers) are being made in the West. Furthermore, use of West Coast facilities will ease the Army & Navy's critical transportation problem, speed up ship repairs. So far the West Coast has had more than its share...
...WPBster bluntly: "I don't see where the West Coast's holler about V-E day comes in. It will keep slightly more war contracts, but with a pretty good shake on reconversion its position ought to be pretty good. But some Eastern cities where the bulk of the contracts will be canceled at once will be up against it. They'd be only too glad to have some of that West Coast war production...
...teacher-shortage problem. It began to seem so last week to School Superintendent Charles H. Tye of Sioux County, Iowa, as he added up the responses to his offer of husbands "within a year" to women who would become Sioux County schoolmarms (TIME, Sept. 25). Long before the bulk of his replies rolled in, his ten original openings had been filled. For next year's vacancies he kept on file the letters of such applicants as these...