Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shotters make their biggest mark with personalities as subjects (Elvis Presley, Pope Pius XII, Billy Graham, Marilyn Monroe). But the bulk of them do well on hobbies and special guidance. Sample: Your Hair-Do, How to Buy Air Conditioning, Fix-It Yourself, Complete Guide for Young Marrieds. The magazines sell from 15? to $1, take two months to produce in any quality, usually print at least 100,000 copies and live from three months to a year on the newsstands. Five publishers dominate the field, using small but expert editing and layout staffs and free-lance writers. Only the biggest...
...observe material achievements in Communist countries, "where they have gone about this backward-they have started out to establish freedom from want and-" Once again he broke off, and this time a ripple of laughter ran through the 1,000 top-ranking Indonesian officials who made up the bulk of the audience...
...SYNTHETIC-RUBBER production by 1958 will almost equal the world's total natural-rubber output. Since private producers bought the bulk of the $700 million industry from the government in April 1955, they have pushed expansion plans that will increase capacity almost 40% to 1,718,200 tons, v. the relatively stable total of 1,800,000 tons from rubber trees...
...closer watch on tomorrow than Stavros Niarchos. He is building four dry cargo ships against the day, some five years hence, when the last wartime freighters start vanishing from the seas. He is exploring the possibility of roll-on, roll-off ships, and has already ordered his first bulk carriers in Sweden. He is so impressed with the benefits of an atomic-powered ship that he recently told an aide: "Let's build one now!" The staffer finally convinced him that he was looking too far ahead...
...companies also operate the bulk of their international fleets under foreign flags, but cannot bring home the profits without paying U.S. corporation taxes. In 1939 the U.S. Government actually encouraged shipping companies to register their fleets in neutral Panama, thus kept vital supplies flowing to Britain without violating U.S. neutrality...