Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are approximately 126 little magazines in America today--small circulation, less advertising, and long editorial introductions. North Beach and Greenwich Village provide the bulk, with the ballast variously composed of universities, small Southern towns, and writers' colonies in Arizona and New Mexico. Most of the little magazines are part of a post-war inflation for the avant garde. In the general confusion which gave culture the Beat, Silent, Sad, Brown, and Breathless Generations, art and intellectual vomit (the boundary has been transgressed) have prospered if not much improved...
...pass through both the St. Lawrence River and the Welland Canal, a ship would be charged 6? for each gross registered ton, plus 42? for each short ton (2,000 Ibs.) of bulk cargo and 95? a ton for general cargo. A modern C-2 freighter carrying 4,000 tons of bulk cargo (ore, grain, pulpwood. scrap) and 4,000 tons of packaged merchandise would pay $5,955 for a one-way passage; a profitless trip in ballast would cost only $475 in tolls...
...fact is that Big Steel, which had planned to finance the bulk of its projected $665 million expansion program for 1958 (TIME, March 24) through profits and depreciation charges, has been hit by the profit squeeze and the inadequacies of depreciation allowances. By going into the public market, it will improve its cash position, make it easier to continue its expansion program without further dipping into working capital...
Today, though rockets for the Titan and Polaris missiles still account for the bulk of Aerojet's business, the company is moving fast across the whole spectrum. It formed an Astronautics Laboratory in 1956 to pursue abstract proposals for space flight, acquired two small companies to get ideas and lab space. An ordnance engineering division was set up to explore automation. A third new division, Aerojet-General Nucleonics, is about the most successful of all. Founded two years ago to study the application of nuclear energy to rocket propulsion, it soon went far beyond. The division, says President Kimball...
RESEARCH OUTLAYS are still on the rise. Poll of 500 key firms by American Management Association showed that 93% will equal or top 1957 investments in research. Of last year's $10 billion outlay by Government and private sources, bulk went to development of aircraft, machinery, chemicals...