Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...costumes lining the hallway until we reached the fifth floor. Inside a low ceilinged room there were baskets of shoes. Our costumes were arrayed along a clothes bar near a mirror. Everyone did their best to find something that didn't smell too old and that fairly approximated his bulk until four of us were dressed as herdsman, one as a cook, and others as villagers...
...Khrushchev faction, at considerable help to himself. It is known that during his visit to the Soviet Union last June Tito stubbornly resisted tentative suggestions that he join some kind of new Communist International, for the reason that it would put him in an inferior position, beneath the bulk of the mighty Soviet and Chinese members, and ruin his relations with the West. But a new Communist International in which all the satellite countries were autonomous would give Tito a powerful seniority, perhaps even tab him as political and ideological straw boss of some of the European satellites...
...agreements with the U.S., has raised its world export position from 17th to eighth place. By the end of Japan's fiscal year next March, exports, already 50% ahead of last year in dollar .areas, are expected to hit $2.5 billion. Textiles still make up the bulk, but heavy machinery constitutes 31% of the total...
...bulk of the sales still are made in the nation's 5,000 record shops. Therefore record companies are subsidizing modernization of the cluttered shops to gear them to the new market. Columbia, RCA and Decca give free advice on store design, help dealers buy materials. Says RCA Vice President Lawrence Kanaga: "Gone are the days when the record shop was like a library where a customer really had to know his music. We're changing it into a supermarket where a buyer does not have to worry about mispronouncing Beethoven...
Even with the loss of last year's captain, Dan French, and Al Wills and Ken Wilson, the team is composed of the bulk of last year's squad, plus the addition of the top runners from the undefeated '59 squad...