Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EMPLOYMENT is lagging far behind general recovery from the recession. While industrial production has recouped more than 50% of its loss, manufacturing employment has recovered only 25%. When will the bulk of the unemployed be rehired? Last week top Administration economists estimated that even when production hits the mid-1957 boom level, unemployment will remain at upwards of 4,000,000, or 6% of the labor force, because of some significant changes in production methods...
Undoubtedly lots of students are baffled at the bulk of material labelled "jazz" on the record counters, and buy Debussy to escape confusion. A term must be vague to embrace so many extremes, and talk--especially talk with opinionated jazz-lovers--seldom clarifies the issue. Then those in the jazz know too often mumble an "It would be nice if ...." and do nothing themselves to promote activity...
Already the Communists had established something close to a blockade of Quemoy. When the Chinese Nationalist navy early in the week tried to reinforce and supply the island, small, fast Communist craft drove the bulk of the convoy back to the Pescadores, and U.S. newsmen who succeeded in getting to Quemoy (see below) reported that no significant shipping had reached it since the Communists opened up their artillery assault three weeks ago. Five days later, in response to the Communist blockade, two U.S. heavy cruisers and six U.S. destroyers escorted a pair of Nationalist supply ships to Quemoy...
...other centuries the cathedral was a proper symbol. "It was needed to dominate, even in the physical sense, by the employment of the mass and bulk and the arrogance of towers commanding the landscape-less to spy out the political enemy than to cow the underlings. The lacy frivolity of St. Patrick's cows nobody on [Manhattan's] Fifth Avenue today, and the view of it from atop Rockefeller Center suggests nothing so much as an outsized Victorian toy anchored in the heart of modern commerce...
...round in too many tournaments; at Chicago, he carded a horrible 80 in the first round, came back with two 64s and a 67 to finish a respectable seventh. But overall, these three are far more consistent than the hot-and-cold young pros who make up the bulk of the touring company...