Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told them frankly that Britain has junked the old bilateralism for liberal trading policies. Britain, he said, may be willing to buy more Argentine beef now. especially since meat rationing will end in July, but that will depend on whether private British traders, who have supplanted the old state bulk buyers, think the Argentine price is right...
SAUDI ARABIA now gets the bulk of its national revenue from oil royalties. Unfortunately, at present the money goes largely to subsidize royal relatives and tribal chieftains,"a relatively small group lacking in civic conscience...
...brought a hardening of British attitudes in Suez and Kenya. Communist revolt in Malaya made drastic action certain when other Reds made trouble in British Guiana. Not surprisingly, postwar Britain has turned to its colonies to 1) recoup its economy, and 2) restore its prestige. British Africa, with the bulk of the empire's area and population, gets top priority...
...department also maintains for the University an extensive tunnel system which houses all of Harvard's power and steam lines. The steam is bought in bulk from the Cambridge Power and Electric Light Company, crossing the river at one point underneath the floor of Week's Bridge. In the upper left photograph, a worker is making one of his periodic inspections of the tunnel along Memorial Drive near Dunster. House. Directly above, a workman is producing the sundry signs that inform the student what he may or may not do. This task is also performed at the Memorial Drive shops...
...Agatha's only real function in The Fire-Raisers, apart from putting an end to Etienne's bachelordom. is to be utterly normal and healthy-to sit calmly, creating real life among people who are doing their utmost to dodge it. In proportion as Agatha swells in bulk, the valley dwellers swell in hysteria, as if they must at all costs escape the growing terror of the future. By the time Agatha's baby is born, they have become mad enough to set the whole bush in flames...