Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experts are inclined to accept Peter Masefield's figures, except those for France and Germany. The British, they say, exaggerate Hitler's air power in France, consequently overestimate the number of Nazi planes keeping vigil against Britain. U.S. information is that the bulk of Germany's western air fleet is still within the Reich, a position whence it could be hurled quickly against Russia, Britain or to the south, as occasion arises...
...when he died in 1931 he left behind him, in some 5,000 handwritten pages, a bulk of secret work which might have sweated the remotest of recluses. Even as reduced to portable size by his daughter Sylvia, Islandia runs to 1,013 pages. It is a strange, absorbing book...
...bulk of last year's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oscars were awarded to Twentieth-Century-Fox's "How Green Was My Valley." That these honors were bestowed on the movie adaptation of Richard Lewellyn's novel of life and death in a Welsh mining town was as good a way as any to prove that Hollywood still knows what art and science in a film are, and what they can contribute to an epic picturization of a beautiful and moving story...
...tracks (for nags and dogs), notorious "front man" for Al Capone and other gangsters, and was shotgunned to death from a passing automobile a week and a day before Scarface Al got out of the pen in 1939. Against Father O'Hare's $250,000 estate, the bulk of which was left in trust to his children, George Remus, once-famed bootleg king and wife-killer, had filed a claim for $196,000 for liquor stolen from his St. Louis warehouses. The rejection of the Remus claim made the inheritance of the O'Hare children secure...
Died. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 65, wealthy art patron, sculptress; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Great-granddaughter of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the family fortune, she was the widow of Manhattan Financier Harry Payne Whitney, who died in 1930 and left her the bulk of his $63,000,000 fortune. The following year she opened Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1934, in the course of a bitter legal battle, she won from her widowed sister-in-law, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, custody (five days a week) of Gloria Jr., then ten, now Mrs. Pat di Cicco...