Word: bulks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...foreign troops claim extraterritorial privileges and hold themselves not subject to local law. In the overall grand strategy of the cold war, the U.S. has sought to devise a new and workable solution to the old problems: a worldwide network of "status-of-forces agreements" designed to cover the bulk of 700,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen stationed in 49 friendly countries...
...Tube. Hope of the industry for 1958 is the new wide-angle picture tube pioneered by Sylvania. By widening the projection angle from 90° to 110°, the new tube cuts 4 to 6 in. off cabinet depth, up to 50% off bulk. Herbert Riegelman, G.E. TV general manager, calls the new "slim line" the "industry's first opportunity for planned obsolescence," hopes that the new flatter sets will bring TV back into the living room as the old bulkier set is relegated to the playroom...
...producing almost as much as before. For 1957, the U.S. signed up 233,453 farmers to take 12,784,968 acres of wheat out of production in return for $230,974,475 in payments. This should have cut output 20%, but the now ripening winter-seeded wheat crop (the bulk of the crop) is expected to be 703 million bu., only 4% under the 1956 total of 734 million. Moreover, per-acre yields of 22.5 bu. (v. 18.6 average for the past ten years) will break all records...
Involving a critical mission into enemy territory to knock out a bridge, the bulk of the film is concerned with the exploits of our brave Americano amidst a most unconvincing group of gypsies. Particularly grating is the phoney accent meant to simulate Spanish, ably seconded by the blatant and ill-written dialogue. No effort is made to indicate fully rounded characters; both Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman turn in poor performances as Grant and Bergman, nothing else...
...Submerge a Feud. Later this month King Saud will visit Baghdad to see Iraq's 22-year-old King Feisal, and perhaps his Hashemite cousin, Hussein of Jordan, too. Together these three Kings control a huge hunk of the Arab Middle East and the vast bulk of its economic resources. If Saud can submerge his old feuds with the Hashemites, an effective counterweight to Nasser (and to his lone ally, Syria) will have been built up in the Arab world itself...