Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile front with sufficient forces everywhere yet find the troops to concentrate for its own purposes and to counter enemy concentrations. On such a front the whereabouts of ever-shifting air and tank formations and the availability of concealed reserves may mean more than the relative bulk of the forces routinely assigned to a sector. If, as the Germans reported last week, the Russians are moving reinforcements into the sector between Orel and Kharkov for a summer blow, the kind and quality, rather than the size, of the forces may be decisive...
...glimpse of the elder J. P. Morgan's imperious bulk convinced Graduate Bernie that he wanted to be a financier. He went to work in Wall Street as an unpaid apprentice...
Facts of Jeepery. Neither Willys nor Bantam created and developed the jeep by themselves. Bulk of this honor should rightfully go to the Army. Interested in developing a small car to replace motorcycles for reconnaissance, the Army purchased an Austin car to experiment with in 1933, continued experiments with a Bantam. Having determined that it wanted a 1,300-lb. car, the Army sent specifications to 135 manufacturers. Bantam and Willys were the only two who answered, and Bantam received an order for 70 vehicles. The cars were promising but too light, so the Army increased the weight to about...
...verdant Jamaica is a richly productive Crown Colony in the British West Indies, but the bulk of its black inhabitants lives in poverty. The war has strangled its exports of rum and bananas, and the shipping shortage has brought the island's home economy to a new low. As 1943 began, transportation was almost at a standstill; some towns had been dark nine months because there was no oil for lamps; meat, bread, salt, rice, fish and matches were either rationed or unavailable. Economic ills weakened political or der. During a funeral procession the coffin of an unpopular public...
Also new to the board is Mrs. Edsel Ford. Although the bulk of her husband's estate in non-voting Ford stock (estimated at upwards of $200,000,000) is held by the tax-free Ford Educational and Charity Foundation (TIME, June 7), she and her four children still hold his voting Ford stock, giving them a 41% voice in empire affairs. No one expects her to exercise this voice with more than routine "yeas" and "nays" until her three sons, now in service, find their own voices...