Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were also signs that the demands of the Moslem League, India's second largest party, for a separate Moslem state might not bulk as large as had seemed likely. One of the country's leading Moslems, Premier of Punjab Sir Sikandar Hyat Khan, told friends that he was resigning from the League's Working Committee and Council. It was believed that he had quarreled with the League's President Mohamed Ali Jinnah. Since Sir Sikandar has long favored coalition with the Congress in forming provincial governments, his resignation might mean that he would work...
...blocked sterling credits to redeem the ?365,700 balance ($1,473,800) of 5% Transandine Railway bonds, raising the total bonds repatriated from London since Nov. 1, 1941 to the tidy sum of ?4,100,000 ($16,523,000). By coolly outbidding the U.S., Argentina bought up the bulk of Ecuadorian rubber to help keep its tire factories running. And at week's end Madrid announced a new accord with Argentina for: 1) exchange of Spain's industrial goods, machinery and chemicals against Argentina's badly needed surplus foodstuffs, to the tune of some...
India is not a nation ; it is a subcontinent with many races and languages. It is only under British rule that India has known general unity. The bulk of India's population is made up of 250,000,000 Hindus and 80,000,000 Moslems; their religious and ethical ideals are widely divergent. Moreover, a third of India's space, a fourth of its population are in the 562 Indian States, of many sizes and conditions of government, which have their own rulers under an elastic "paramountcy" of the British Raj. These potentates generally incline toward British rule...
Though few newspaper readers were aware of it, for 48 years the City News Association of New York furnished New York dailies with the big bulk of their local stories. City News shut up shop last week, and Manhattan newsmen acted as though they had lost their best friend...
Some 1,500 workers swarmed over her vast bulk, twisting her elegance into a bleak wartime pattern for the Navy. Then one bright, blithe afternoon this week a puff of smoke drifted across her promenade deck. A few minutes later, the deck was completely ablaze. After two and a half years of idling at a Manhattan pier, the Lafayette (as the U.S. had renamed the Normandie), a ship into which the French had poured $60,000,000 and some 2,500,000 man-days of labor, was in danger of turning into a fire-blackened hulk...