Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maids as possible will be laid off this year," a top HUERA official said last night. "It's hoped that the usual turnover of maids at the end of the year will take care of the bulk of the cut-down," he emphasized. No new maids will be hired next fall and any dismissal will come from those maids newly hired this term, he said...
...Needle. The agreement to confer was disposed of in a couple of short paragraphs, but the great bulk of the 3,000-word Soviet note was taken up with needling Eisenhower for failing to call for "unconditional banning of atomic and hydrogen weapons, as well as other types of weapons of mass destruction." Why not, said the note, devote all atomic material to peaceful purposes? This was a skillful playback of a seven-year-old Soviet propaganda line on which U.N. atomic conferences have always foundered. The line has clamored for an immediate outlawing of atomic bombs (the West...
Secretary of State Dulles announced flatly that the U.S. regards Okinawa and the bulk of the Ryukyu and Bonin Island chains as "essential links" in the strategic defense of the whole Pacific area, intends to keep control of them "so long as conditions of threat and tension exist in the Far East." Under a defense system that accents air power and mobility, the Ryukyus and Bonins will be strong U.S. air and naval outposts in a defensive line that stretches along the China coast from Japan to the Philippines...
Last spring, at 66, Composer Ilgenfritz died without hearing whether or not the Met liked his operas. But he saw to it that the opera would not forget about them: he left the Met the bulk of his estate on condition that it would perform one of them. Last week an inventory of the estate was filed, and it appeared that the Met was in line for some $150,000 if it met Composer Ilgenfritz' condition...
Hopper Helper. A new freight car for bulk shipments of dry powdered commodities (feed, chemicals), which formerly had to be transported in containers, was put into production by General American Transportation Corp. The car contains bins with slanted sides lined with a porous, silicon-treated fabric. To unload the car, air is blown at low pressure under the fabric, breaking up hard-packed cargo so that it flows like water through hatches under...