Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week came Major General (ret.) Ellard A. Walsh. 69. National Guard Association president, and twelve Guard generals. Acceding to the Army directive on most points, Minnesota's Walsh demanded one privilege: eleven weeks' training for the 17-18½-year-olds from whom the Guard draws "the bulk of our enlistees." If it is forced to surrender that final prerogative, warned Walsh, the National Guard will ''have had the kiss of death placed upon...
Under Coleman there has been no letup in segregation for the Negroes. In the shining new factories, few get better jobs than floor sweeping. Disgruntled, some 25,000 Negroes a year are leaving for opportunities elsewhere. Yet the bulk of an estimated $100 million to be spent on schools in the next five years will be used to bring Negro schools up to white levels. The state grants Negro teachers salaries equal to their white counterparts (but local school boards frequently add discriminatory differentials). Unlike governors in Louisiana. Alabama and Texas, Coleman disapproved of banning the N.A.A.C.P. Says a Mississippi...
PRIVATE POWER won long dispute over whether bulk of U.S. power from St. Lawrence Seaway project should go to private industry or to public systems. New York's Governor Harriman okayed sale to Reynolds Metals Co. of more than 25% of state's St. Lawrence power, on top of same amount already promised to Alcoa. Reynolds will build $88 million aluminum reduction plant on St. Lawrence near Massena, N.Y., and General Motors will put up aluminum casting foundry there, spur lagging industrialization in the upstate area...
...Canada expects to be producing uranium at an annual rate of $300 million, the bulk of it in the Blind River area, where all the mines are located within a ten-mile radius of the town of Elliot Lake. Two years ago Elliot Lake was only some lines on a chart. Today it has 400 completed homes, two large trailer camps with some of the biggest, plushest trailers parked anywhere on the continent, and a population of 4,000 expected to swell to 25,000 by 1958. Around Elliot Lake traditions are being made so fast that an enterprising...
Both magazines had agreed to print no more copies than usual, and accept no bulk orders-to discourage greedy grocers and housewifely hoarders. Thus many longtime newsstand buyers had to go without their copies...