Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite rising exports, Britain got into this meat hole because of a gimmick beloved of its doctrinaire Socialists, bulk buying. The fact that the government does all Britain's buying of essential foods and many other commodities is supposed to enhance its bargaining power, make imports cheaper for Britain's people. But after Britain became a bulk buyer, Argentina, which supplies 20% of Britain's meat imports, became in self-defense a bulk seller...
...bulk buying had never been invented, if the old-fashioned pre-Socialist price system were working, there would soon be a way of determining whether Argentina's price was exorbitant. Some private British meat importers would pay the high price in the hope that they could sell at a profit. If they were wrong, Argentina's price would come down...
...menaced." But, nothing daunted, the Daily Worker called on its readers to get enough new subscribers to keep it going. It put its faith in the "historic upsurge in the peace sentiment of our fellow Americans." The Worker got another blow last week. In New York City, where the bulk of its readership is concentrated, 500 newsdealers voted 4-to-1 to bar the paper from their stands...
...week long, the whereabouts of the bulk of the U.S. Eighth Army, along the Seoul-Taejon axis, was obscured by censorship. For all that news readers in the U.S. knew to the contrary, the Eighth might have been retreating pell- mell toward Taejon. This week news of an allied counterattack in the Osan sector made it clear that the Army was no longer in retreat...
Like all British observers of the U.S. Army, this observer was both envious and appalled at the bulk and variety of U.S. equipment and its "amenities." One Briton in Korea says that he saw tanks held up for hours by beer and refrigerator trucks. Another, who had been with U.S. troops landing in Southern France, said last week: "In France, I thought someone was just having his little joke when they brought the office wastebaskets ashore from the ship. But damned if they didn't do the same thing in Korea...