Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million-plus estate of the late Cinemogul Louis B. Mayer (TIME, Nov. 11) was divided, as now disclosed in his probated will, in L. B.'s characteristically forthright manner. To L. B.'s favorite charity, the Louis B. Mayer Foundation, will go the bulk of his fortune; a remaining amount of some $2,500,000 was left to his second wife Lorena ($750,000), his daughter Irene Selznick ($500,000), his adopted daughter Suzanne ($500,000), friends and faithful retainers. But Mayer's daughter Edith, 52, and her husband, Producer William Goetz, were left with nary...
...like clean small boys, do not necessarily stay clean for long. The most familiar kind of radioactive fallout comes from the fission of plutonium or uranium 235, and from the so-called clean bombs that the U.S. Government has announced contain only small amounts of these troublemaking substances. The bulk of the bomb's bang comes from fusion of hydrogen, which creates no fission products...
...whole are over-rigorous, artificial, and inflexible. Through petty technicality, we have wasted the talents of some of the possible top contributors, Oppenheimer being a prominent, though controversial example. It is difficult and expensive to clear a national of even the most friendly foreign country--and after all, the bulk of basic research in atomic physics and rocketry has been done by foreigners. Moreover, such a disqualifying factor as having even distant relatives in a Soviet-bloc country, though sensible in general, has become an ironclad rule. But perhaps the most outstanding excess of the men in padded shoes...
...signs that the credit pinch will push the economy into serious deflation. For one thing, Japan's traditionally thrifty industrialists have strong cash reserves to fall back on. While net profits rose 23.1% between June and December 1956, companies increased dividends by only 2.2% (to 14.1%), retained the bulk of their earnings. As for Japan's consumers, heavy savings from past years (12% of disposable income v.7% in the U.S.) plus a near-record 371 million-bu. rice crop give them plenty of money to spend. Department store sales are up 23% for 1957 despite the credit pinch...
...essential thing is whether we can retain the great bulk of our freedoms and at the same time beat back this great monolithic structure," Dulles said. "I have no doubt it can be done," he concluded...