Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increase by about 49 million people in 1959, may well jump from the present 2.8 billion to more than 6 billion by the turn of the century. And because the first impact of modern medical techniques on a primitive society is a startling drop in the death rate, the bulk of this explosive population increase has occurred in the underdeveloped nations: the combined population of Asia, Africa and Latin America has increased by 600 million since 1936, is expected to jump another billion...
...related process, testosterone can be transformed into testololactone. Chemists at E. R. Squibb & Sons had found that bacteria could make testololactone by fermentation. When they tried to produce it this way in bulk, said Dr. Segaloff, the bugs rebelled and turned out instead a variant called delta-1-testololactone. It was just as well: testololactone has proved to have all the virilizing properties of testosterone. But the delta1 variant, tested so far in 24 patients, proved in seven cases to be as potent as testosterone in suppressing cancer growth, and with no virilizing effects...
Even though the bulk of the crop--from Massachusetts, New Jersey and Michigan--was uncontaminated, major supermarket chains took cranberries off the grocery shelves. With a record crop of 125 million pounds to sell, the indignant industry called Flemming's action "unnecessary, untimely and imprudent." The Secretary had embarked, said the growers' spokesman, "on a cranberry witchhunt...
...British Broadcasting Corp. Both the noncommercial BBC and the British commercial ITV probably give a better balance of educational and entertainment programs than do U.S. networks. But as soon as Britain's commercial channel went into business three years ago, its lower-brow fare began to take the bulk of Britain's "telly" viewers away from BBC. To meet the competition, BBC itself has lately turned to less cerebral programing, including plenty of U.S. westerns. The fact remains that ITV furnishes a striking example that a TV network can be run for profit without giving the advertiser control...
...brother who haunted his way through Long Day's Journey into Night: now, he is measurably nearer to the grave which is his best hope. The slut (this time paradoxically endowed with a strange secret of virginity) is a huge, slatternly girl, both proud and ashamed of her physical bulk and power...