Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit bug-eyed businessmen heard a Lafayette Escadrille veteran, Gill Robb Wilson, now National Aeronautic Association president, say that their city would "have a pretty good chance" to become a great international air-transport center after the war. Already, said Captain Wilson, the bulk of U.S. planes taking...
Strategically, the Russian victories last week were as big as any that have been won in the entire winter offensive, save that at Stalingrad. But comparatively few German troops were killed or captured. This suggested that the Germans had previously withdrawn the bulk of their forces, and that they were still "shortening the line," sacrificing precious geography in order to save their armies...
...Quickly housewives discovered how hard are the facts of rationing: with his 48 points a month, each civilian could buy only three or four cans. Rationing also meant a leveling of U.S. diets: upper-income groups had once eaten the bulk of the nation's meat, low-income groups the bulk of canned goods. Now meat would soon be shared & shared alike-and even beans ("the poor man's food") now had high point values. Precious few foods (examples: olives, mincemeat, popcorn) remained unrationed. Cook books, vegetable gardens and a knowledge of dietetics became more highly...
...common pattern. Commander of the Rangers now in training is slight, friendly Major Randolph Milholland, 36, onetime cost accountant from Cumberland, Md. One of his captains, Lloyd Marr, 31, of Lamesa, Tex., trained in civilian life by working up statistics for the U.S. Treasury Department. In commando training, bulk and muscle are assets. But the training-wise instructors know they are not indispensable. A stout heart counts most...
Left. By the late Maxine Elliott, famed stage beauty: an estate appraised at $1,140,065 net; the bulk of it to her sister, Lady Gertrude Forbes-Robertson, the rest to four nieces (including Mrs. Vincent Sheean), one maid...