Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...march on Rome slithered forward. Despite mud, mountains and fresh men brought down from the north by Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, the Allied armies worked into position for a wheeling drive. Lieut. General Mark Clark's Fifth held the hinge along the Garigliano River, pinned down the bulk of ten Nazi divisions. General Sir Bernard Montgomery's Eighth butted to the Sangro River, threatened to envelop the German defense of Rome from the Adriatic flank...
Because of this, the Army has used the Lodestars little, has given the bulk of its transportation job to the famed work horse, the Douglas DC-3. These have seldom idled in hangars. When a batch of them was returned to an airline recently (13 planes have been returned in all), airmen were amazed to discover that they had been flown more than nine hours daily, by the Army. This was more than they were flown in peacetime and nearly as much as airline ships...
...points above last week's close and up 85 points from the year's low. In Baltimore Tom Moore hit a high of $200 v. its $27 1943 low. But before the ordinary stockholder can drink his dividends, he must pay State and Federal taxes, have the bulk liquor shipped around to bottlers, labelers, wholesalers and retailers (who are entitled to the regular 33⅓% markup...
Tank spearheads drove through the city, and continued in pursuit. Behind them came the bulk of Vatutin's army, estimated at 300,000. German garrisons of some 150,000 men withdrew before the trap was sprung. In Moscow, the Red Army's newspaper Red Star said proudly: "History has not known such a swift operation...
Soon the Ponsonby finger was in every royal pie. But the bulk of his day was filled with the endless routine of court problems, royal disapproval and viewing-with-alarm. "The Queen would be grateful," he wrote to a diplomat, "if you would request her Charge d'Affaires at Dresden to take a less humorous view of Royal funerals." From the Dean of Windsor he had to find out whether the British Government "officially believe in Purgatory." There were hundreds of importunate requests to submit to the monarch: Oscar Wilde asked permission to copy some of the poetry "written...