Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There will be a considerably larger draft call, but the bulk of draftees will come from the 900,000 men now classified as 1A, the spokesman continued. He added that no change in the status of graduate students is contemplated and that law school students will continue to be classified as undergraduates...
This week the U.S. Army and the Atomic Energy Commission confirmed what Exercise Long Horn hinted at. The atomic bomb, once a massive city-buster suitable only for use in strategic air attack, has been tamed and reshaped as a major new tactical weapon for the U.S. Army. Its bulk has been compressed and slimmed into a workable artillery shell. The shell can be fired with pinpoint accuracy by a new highly mobile atomic artillery piece. The atomic cannon is already in production...
...record. So far, the case has cost the defendants-and U.S. taxpayers-millions of dollars. The issues at stake are huge; if the Government wins, there will be what one expert called a "revolution" in the U.S. money market. Since the firms on trial handle the bulk of all negotiated underwritten security issues, a decision against them would permit the Government to lay down rules to change virtually all investment-banking procedures. Last week such possibilities seemed remote; it was plain that the Government's case had been shot full of holes...
Miss Green was apparently a bit of an eccentric. The will disposing of the bulk of the fortune was found by her attorneys with four cakes of soap in a tin cabinet in her New York apartment...
While U.S. voters this week looked to the northeast (New Hampshire) for the national political portent, the signs in Germany last week were in the southwest. Germany's Socialists, led by vituperative Kurt Schumacher, have long insisted that the bulk of Germany's people are dead set against Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's plans to tie Germany into the Western European defense. A local election for assembly members in the southwestern state newly formed from the merger of Württemberg-Baden, Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern gave them, they thought, an ideal chance to prove their...