Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battleships, carriers and cruisers from the Bay of Bengal to the East Indies, then to home waters. Part of the Japanese main fleet moved southward toward a rendezvous at Formosa. Aircraft and light naval units suddenly withdrew from Australia's outlying islands; submarines were left to do the bulk of Jap work, take the brunt of Jap losses there...
...Admiral Ernest Joseph King and the Army's General George Catlett Marshall knew that such a force would have assembled only for a major blow. The question was: Where? They had to apply what Admiral King last week called his doctrine of "calculated risk," placing the bulk of what they had where the Jap seemed most likely to strike, where the U.S. stood to win or lose the most. They calculated the risks and chose Midway. They put their own forces on the move. Then they waited. On June 3, at 9 a.m., P.W.T., the waiting ended...
...during May they destroyed 1,366 Nazi planes, including 432 in May's final week, when the battles near Kharkov were ending. (In the last nine days of May, the Germans said, they destroyed 610 Russian planes, lost 53.) By the Russian account, the Nazis had scattered the bulk of the Luftwaffe across the face of Russia, on airdromes just behind the forward lines. Thus they exposed themselves to continuous Russian harassment. But they could give their troops in each sector some air support during the engagements of winter and spring, then mass in any chosen sector...
...class will probably follow preceding generations of students in distribution, with the bulk of the men coming from Massachusetts and New England. Around 100 transfers are expected, as well as a smaller number of dropped Freshmen. There will presumably again be Freshmen from all 48 states, and in the past a number of foreign countries have also been represented...
...would fall on "persons whose standard of living is already below safe levels." But, while no one wanted to wreak injury on the very lowest income group, most New Dealers now argued that a sales tax was perhaps the most powerfully effective way to cut down the big new bulk of inflationary purchasing power. Shelved for a month at least was the plan for enforced savings: for one thing, Congress wants to get back home pretty soon for a two-month vacation and political fence-mending...