Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crisis in coal was far more serious than a bout between two well-known champions. If John L. Lewis' 450,000 men strike, and are allowed to stay out. they will in due course bring the bulk of the U.S. war machine to a grinding stop by cutting off two-thirds" of the nation's electric power, stopping most of its railroads and steel mills. And if they win, they will spearhead the forces that may smash the President's Maginot Line against inflation...
Tails Up. The Tories had something, and they knew it. Their tails were up, and they were romping all around the pasture. They had the bulk of Britain's private wealth. They controlled virtually all civilian war industries and Government boards. They had the ablest men in public life, ran the smoothest party organization. Now Winston Churchill could take a hero's modest bow for the victories in North Africa, and his Party shared the political rewards...
Shasta is larger than Boulder Dam, second in all the world only to Grand Coulee in Washington. Its whirling turbines will feed power through the West. Its huge bulk-580 ft. thick, more than 560 ft. high, 3,500 ft. long-will back water 35 miles up the Sacramento, Pit and McCloud rivers. Along with the Friant Reservoir on the San Joaquin River, this man-made great lake will irrigate 1,000,000 California acres which would otherwise be largely desert...
...Then the vast bulk of shipments was to the British Isles, and transports averaged 6,500 miles the round voyage. Now the average is much higher; transports to Australia cover an average 14,000 miles on the round voyage; to the Persian Gulf (longest haul...
...benevolent, religious, and educational objects," the late John Pierpont Morgan left little, noting in his probated will that he had already made donations to such causes "to the extent of my ability." Bulk of the estate, estimated at well under $50,000,000 (about a third of what his father left in 1913), went to his two sons, Naval Reserve Commander Junius Spencer Morgan and Lieut. Commander Henry Sturgis Morgan. Lesser bequests included $25,000 apiece to daughters Frances Tracy Pennoyer and Jane Norton Nichols, their husbands Paul and George, and daughters-in-law Louise Converse Morgan and Catherine Adams...