Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With 49% of the vote behind his Greek Rally Party, Premier Papagos last week announced his policy towards the Communists: "It is by education and economic improvement that I can bring the bulk of Communist sympathizers back into the nation. But this does not apply to the militants, the convinced fanatics for whom there is no hope. Those who are the most dangerous must be interned...
Last week the American Civil Liberties Union formally protested against such censorship. Some of the Russian magazines were held up or destroyed by U.S. Customs under the law which bans subversive or obscene literature. Since most of the magazines and newspapers come into the U.S. by bulk mail, the customs men have been destroying some of them on the spot. Some of those passed by customs have been held up, or destroyed, by the Post Office under the law that bans mailing of publications that advocate "treason, insurrection, or forcible resistance to the laws of the U.S." Acting Postal Solicitor...
...help of a well-known Dominion name, Sears will cash in on Canada's lower tax rates (52% maximum v. 69% in the U.S.). For its part, Simpsons will benefit from Sears's vast retailing and merchandising experience, which has developed such cost-cutting methods as bulk buying and close cooperation with manufacturers (TIME, Feb. 25). The two partners dovetail in another way: Simpsons' mail-order business has always run two to one in favor of clothing, draperies and other soft goods, while at Sears the ratio has been reversed in favor of major appliances and other...
...Army. The results of that survey, announced in a preliminary report this fall, show that Harvard men are more allergic to khaki than all but one of ten representative schools in the country. Only fifteen per cent tested here evinced any desire to go into service. The bulk were lukewarm at best, and fully a quarter wanted nothing to do with the armed forces...
Suits to Science. All this was what was intended by Founder John Simmons, who began life as a tailor, made a fortune out of introducing the U.S. to the ready-made suit. Probably in honor of the seamstresses he employed, Simmons left the bulk of his estate for a college that would prepare girls to earn "an independent livelihood." In 1902, in temporary quarters near Victorian Copley Square, the college opened, with courses in domestic engineering, secretarial and library work, and general science...