Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though competitors, three truck manufacturers (White, Diamond T, Autocar) set up a joint purchasing committee to speed their work on 9,347 standardized Army trucks and scout cars. The committee first got subcontractors tooled up without duplicating facilities, now places bulk orders for all materials...
...General Jonkheer A. W. L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, who is not the tough customer Hubertus van Mook is. The Dutch did no such thing. Twelve days after the Japanese delegation arrived, while small Minister Kobayashi was being escorted around by a guard of honor picked for stature and bulk, Queen Wilhelmina cabled Batavia the appointment of Van Mook as Cabinet Min's er for the duration of the negotiations. Minister van Mook and Minister Kobayashi thereupon set out to two-time each other out of their timetables...
...with their equipment, across 2.800 miles of the China Sea, a landing on Borneo might be successful. But the oil wells of Borneo were prepared for instant destruction, and the Dutch have sworn to destroy them if need be. Java, citadel of the Indies defense, held the bulk of an Army of 100,000 (native and European), the bulk of the new Air Force, old but fixed coastal defenses, an arsenal. And Sumatra was just as tough, with one half sheltered by Malaya, the other half lying in the strategic domain of the mighty fortress of Singapore...
There were other exceptions, but the exceptions did not invalidate the general rule that the great bulk of civilian soldiers had little pride of outfit, little joy of service. Like many soldiers now canonized as heroes-men who fought in the Revolution and the Civil War-they wanted to go home. Prime reasons...
...Bulk of present tank production is coming from American Car & Foundry Co.'s light ( 13-ton) tank plant at Berwick, Pa. This week, with its rate up to 200 a month, A.C.F. delivers its 1,000th tank. Almost ready for production is an improved, 18-ton model with more armor, more punch. A.C.F. last week received a $12,500,000 Army order-presumably for these new light tanks...