Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minister of Atomic Energy as well. Unofficially, he is India's chief planner, chief policymaker, chief reformer and universal straw boss. Proud of his command of English (developed at Harrow and Cambridge), Nehru will sign no letter prepared by anyone else, and he personally dictates the great bulk of cables going to Indian ambassadors abroad. His Cabinet ministers have long since become accustomed to being awakened in the middle of the night by "urgent" Nehru messages complaining about an unpainted government housing project or a trash can that sits too far out in a road. Nehru, complains one close...
...59th president. As a boy, Allen picked up pin money plucking pickle cucumbers on his native Long Island. Breaking in as a messenger on the exchange floor in 1914, he became floor trader for Munn & Jenkins, shipping brokers, later founded his Allen Shipping Co., worldwide middleman between shipowners and bulk cargo shippers. Allen saw duty in two world wars (from buck private to colonel), directed operations at the port of Antwerp in World...
...catchy tunes. But the wit is uncomfortably sporadic and Vernon Duke's show tunes sound remarkably alike. Best thing in the revue is Comedienne Charlotte Rae, who is herself at her best in a pair of screwy madrigal numbers. There are two or three entertaining skits, but the bulk of them are either dead on arrival or let their lifeblood ebb away...
Kubitschek's battle against inflation is still too recent to have achieved reportable results; the bulk of his speech dealt with development of resources. The President had bright news of Brazil's petroleum industry. In 1955, he recalled, the country produced 2,000,000 barrels of oil, enough for only ten days' use. This year the Bahia oilfields will pump out more than 5,500,000 barrels, enough to supply the country for a month (at the present rate of consumption). Next year production of 15 million barrels is expected. And, he announced, new exchange rates...
...While other costs are also climbing-iron ore is up 7.4% since July, railroad freight 7%, scrap iron 83.5%-the total increase still falls well short of the $12-to-$15per-ton increase the industry wants. Thus, while costs will eat up part of any price boost, the bulk of it will go to pay for added capacity. And it is here that the industry makes its best case...