Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tunney could manage to get down the trail at all, any old way, let alone trying to "dogtrot." You have to see the Bougainville terrain to appreciate how tortuous it is. Although he is in excellent condition, I think that he will be first to admit that the bulk of the "puffing" was done by none other than Gene Tunney himself...
...cash-heavy, car-hungry U.S. railroads have been on a buying spree; in three days last week they ordered 1,800 cars. But the big surprise was that the bulk of the orders went not to the moss-backed mastodons which have dominated the field for a generation, but to a young outsider, the bustling Mount Vernon Car Manufacturing Co. of Mt. Vernon...
...year. But the school was repeatedly harassed by conflicts between its high-grade faculties and its formidable founder. In 17 years two provosts ( Avonian for headmaster), to one of whom she had been led by consulting a classified telephone directory, quit after rows. Once the bulk of the faculty followed progressive Provost Francis Mitchell Froelicher to Colorado's Fountain Valley School. Last week Provost W. Brooke Stabler, an Episcopal cleric who formerly preached and taught at the University of Pennsylvania, decided to take the headmastership of Michigan's Cranbook School. He and Mrs. Riddle were incommunicado. Faculty members...
...farmers had no choice. The whole intricate system of food distribution from one of the richest U.S. agricultural regions had collapsed. In other years the bulk of the Rio Grande Valley crops had been shipped to market in trucks that swarmed the highways. (There are few railroads.) But this year only dozens of trucks-not hundreds-appeared. Truck drivers and owners are in uniform, or working in war plants. And many trucks are laid up for lack of tires and parts...
...third annual report, the Committee flatly stated: "The bulk of the initial [war] equipment and supplies will have been manufactured within 60 to 90 days. . . . We may expect cancellations or cutbacks . . . within a few months to exceed new contracts." Then, the Committe roundly damned what Lazarus had called "a system of quotas or cartelization...