Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry J. Kaiser was back in Washington this week, heaving his big bulk around corridors and offices, trying to pound his cargo-plane home for once & all. The net result, it appeared, would be not enough to satisfy eager Henry Kaiser-perhaps an order for three prototypes of a new cargo plane (bigger than the 70-ton Mars) designed by his project partner, Airman Howard Hughes-a far cry from Kaiser's original offer to get right to work on an order for 5,000 planes. But considering the painstaking nature of aircraft engineering-with its many slips between...
...under a regency and seven-year-old King Feisal II. The British have more enemies than friends among the 4,500,000 Iraqi; it took British bombs and troops to suppress a brief, pro-Nazi regime in Iraq last year. In Iraq and in adjoining central Persia is the bulk of Sir Henry's Tenth Army, poised to turn northward if the Germans come down from the Caucasus, west if they approach from the Mediterranean and Egypt...
General Hirschauer had a nice problem on his hands. The Luftwaffe had already let Germans know that as long as the Russians held out it would need the bulk of its strength on the eastern front. That put a bigger load than ever on the anti-aircraftsmen.. Yet the cities the Russians now bombed could not have adequate defenses, for the defenses were needed elsewhere. Chiefly they were needed in the tight Ruhr rectangle (15 miles wide and 35 miles long), where 51% of German industry is still concentrated...
Left. By the late George Sutherland, retired Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court: an estate valued at $100,000. The bulk of it goes to his widow...
...trait. (The more we like a thing, the more greatness we are led to claim for it); so we nominate a number of men whose job it is to live on more intimate terms with the respective arts than is possible for anyone else, and let them do the bulk of the selective sifting...