Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Terms of the compromise, as worked out by War Mobilizer James F. Byrnes: the U.S. will build 319 Victory ships next year. It will also build about 200 "C type" cargo ships of speedy Maritime Commission design. But the bulk of next year's shipbuilding will still be Liberties-1,300 to 1,500 of them...
Defeat for Dreamers. When these bedrock facts are firmly in hand, OCR will try to wangle an increase in certain civilian articles, the resumption of manufacture of others. The bulk of additional goods will be in "irritation items," large in U.S. usage, small in material requirements: needles, razor blades, nails, bobby pins, repair parts for household appliances and cars. OCR knows better than to ask manufacture of washing machines, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators (200,000 are still frozen...
Before the war young men made up the bulk of the librarians at the institution, since Metcalf as well as college authorities considered male helpers more appropriate in a men's college. Under the National Youth Administration and the Temporary Student Employment Service, which are no longer in operation, undergraduate students could obtain part time work at the library...
Cattle to Market. Beef slaughterings have been running as much as 40% below last year-with the bulk going to the armed forces. But last week, on the Western ranges, kept green and thick by heavy spring rains, the grass was finally starting to dry up. Soon ranchers will have to start feeding their livestock grain, which is almost impossible to get, or send their herds off to market. This set the stage for a record stampede...
...major factor in breaking up the Luftwaffe. It detected the first flight of Jap planes approaching Pearl Harbor, but a U.S. Army officer ignored the warning ("a historic example of the closed mind in action"). Then the U.S. put most of its best physicists and the bulk of its electronics industry to work mass-producing the instrument ("one of the great postwar chapters for the U.S. electronics industry to tell...