Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnson argues that each of the "successive lunges of the American people" has been in "the direction of more effective control by the bulk of the people" (away from the Founding Fathers' concept of a republic governed by "the best people"). The people, he says, elected the New Deal "to abolish the theoretical neutrality of the Government as between man and man and to convert it into an instrument in the hands of the masses to be used by them to promote their welfare...
America's college youth is old enough and mature enough to decide what course it wants to follow in the present conflict. It may back the President's foreign policy, or it may not. But the Administration is not going to get the support of the bulk of this country's university students if it insists on filling them with some pre-determined notions as a part of their curriculum...
...Teagle, 9,552 gross tons, owned by the Standard Oil Co., flying the British flag, manned by a British crew, bearing north for Iceland with a cargo of bulk...
...what was then (1916) the revolutionary theory of an annual wage for seasonal industries. Intending to teach, he was so irritated by the blank laughter his views aroused among businessmen that he went into business himself. His first venture was an unlikely scheme to sell U.S. oil products in bulk to Palestine. The first shipment netted him $20,000, and in three years he had 40% of the market...
...Last Tycoon contains 128 pages of completed manuscript, covering a little more than half the story contemplated by the author; a synopsis of the rest; a selection from the notes, a letter to the publishers, some fragmentary scenes. To give bulk to the volume the publishers also reprinted in it The Great Gatsby and five Fitzgerald short stories...