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Word: bulks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...find a market. But this contingency is remote. Grumman, with no cutbacks in the offing, this week goes back on a six-day week because of slightly increased schedules. And the shock of the end of the European war may be cushioned. The Navy may shift the bulk of plane contracts back to the old-line planemakers so that the automakers, et al., can get back to peacetime products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Embattled Farmers | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...defeat, most of them to death or capture; 25 Rumanian divisions which had been helping the Nazis turned against them. Twelve Bulgarian divisions which had eased the German load in Yugoslavia and Greece had to pull out. The Germans had 14 to 16 divisions in those countries; the bulk of them could never get back to the Reich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE WAR: Week of Decision | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...France other American correspondents who are attached to the Ninth Air Force backed up their ousted colleagues. Cabled the New York Herald Tribune's Jack Tait: "Correspondents have been told that they must confine the bulk of their activities to coverage of Ninth Air Force news [or] seek reassignment elsewhere. ... It seemed inconceivable that one group engaged in this war would consider publicity for itself more precious than giving the U.S. the story of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pressagents1 War | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...black sedan rolled toward him and slowed. The street echoed with the slamming roar of gunfire, the black sedan raced away, screeched around a corner and was gone. Big Mike leaped out, began dragging Dago Mangano's moaning, bleeding bulk toward the curb. From around another corner the black sedan careened again. Big Mike pushed his girl to safety. The guns roared, and Big Mike fell beside Mangano, mortally wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Death of a Businessman | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...boatload of trippers who were circling Vermont's Neshobe Island, summer hideaway of the late Alexander Woollcott, spied, under a vast straw hat, a vast bulk swathed in a dressing gown. "Who on earth is that?" screamed one of the ladies. "Marie Dressier," said her benchmate-thereby adding another quip to the many already provoked by Mr. Woollcott's complex personality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pumblechook | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

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