Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Depending on the bulk of the freight, each such plane could carry a pay load of between three and four tons. Daily round trips by 100 planes could carry 9,000-12,000 tons a month - as much as the Burma Road carried. The planes could carry most of the things trucks did - pack mortars, field mortars, Bren guns, small machines, engine parts, medical supplies and radio equipment. Four tons per plane of high-octane gasoline would make the planes a small but perhaps life-saving pipeline for fuel...
Marshal Petain retains the innocuous title and role of Chief of State. Doubtless Pierre Laval would have no objection to the aged bulk of the Marshal walking, as Field Marshal von Hindenburg once walked, beside Adolf Hitler on the day of triumph...
Once a year in the spring, the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral society, and the Boston Symphony pool their talents, and give a Pension Fund Concert that for many is the highlight of Boston's musical season. The bulk of these concerts has usually been one of the great religious choral works, simply because the Latin biblical and liturgical texts with their unity of feeling, their rich variety of emotional colors, and their singable sonority have always inspired the best composers to their best choral writing. This year, Koussevitsky has chosen two magnificent old ticket-sellers for his program...
Burlap is the "wrapping paper of the wholesale trade." The U.S., even in normal times, consumes more than 500,000,000 lb. of burlap a year. Bulk foods-grains, raw sugar, coffee, salt, livestock feeds-are bagged in burlap; so are cotton, wool, fertilizers, chemicals, countless industrial products. In wartime it is also needed for sandbags and camouflage fabrics. As raw jute, or as manufactured burlap, 99% of it originates in India, and 85% of that comes from around the steaming Ganges Delta in Bengal Province. In no other part of the world where acceptable jute can be grown...
...worst comes to worst, paper wrapping, or wood-packed shipments in bulk, can still substitute for a lot of burlap. But last week, hemp was in such a parlous state that the agricultural fantasy of the century was being seriously pushed in Washington. Commodity Credit Corp. hoped to obtain 240,000,000 lb. of home-grown hemp, 14 times the U.S.'s peak production in World War I. CCC has barely taken its first baby step in the program: persuading U.S. farmers to plant 35,000 acres of hemp for 350,000 bushels of seed. To achieve that goal...