Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reveal the peripheral and romantic attraction with which at least the editor viewed the West. The collection is composed of pieces on "The Indians We Fought," "The Mountain Men," "The Scouts," "The Ladies," "The Prospectors," "Saddlebag Docs," and "Shootin' Irons." Very little of the book is spent describing the bulk of the people who settled the West, the farmers and small ranchers...
...long struggle with Algerian rebellion, the French have always felt confident of the loyalty of the Shamba tribesmen who make up the bulk of France's elite Saharan Camel Corps. The Shamba, each of whom owns and cares for his own camels (two for riding, one for supplies), earned high honors during World War II for their support of General Leclerc in his march across Africa...
Lorre is not alone in his search for information: mountainous Sidney Greenstreet, as Petersen, an international smuggler, turns up to heave his scene-stealing bulk in revenge after Makropoulos, who years ago ratted on Petersen and the fellows...
...bulk of the money raised, however, will be used to increase faculty salaries, to endow professorial chairs in the Medical School and clinical chairs for full time teaching in hospitals, and to improve research facilities at both the Medical School and the hospitals...
Today Ludwig is the sole owner of National Bulk Carriers, Inc., Universe Tankships, Inc., Seatankers, Inc., has a 58.7% interest in American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. To build ships for only $150 per d.w.t. (v. nearly $300 in the U.S.), he signed a lease on the old Imperial Japanese Navy shipyard in Kure in 1951 that runs to 1961, can be renewed to 1966. To fuel his fleet of more than 40 ships, which he sails with low-cost West Indian crews under the Liberian flag, Ludwig is building a 70,000-bbl.-a-day day refinery in Panama, also...