Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British trade delegation in Buenos Aires this week signed a contract for 200,-00 tons of Argentine meat. For ten months meat shipments had been suspended because Socialist bulk-buyers refused to pay Argentina's price. Minister of Food Maurice Webb said in January that Britain could not pay more than ?120 ($336) per long ton. Last week's agreed price was ?146 ($408) for chilled beef, ?126 ($352) for frozen. In return, the British got a few concessions, including permission for British investors in Argentina to transfer funds home. However, the essence of the new contract...
Today, with the bulk of their first year behind them, the 14 women "pioneers" seem to have refuted the gloomy forecasts. Most objective observes agree that the Harvard Law School has gone quietly co-ed--and likes...
...Ernie Bevin had shouldered his 250-lb. bulk up to the chairmanship of Britain's Trades Union Congress, the top spot in British labor. At high council tables he used plain, blunt, carefully thought-out words and facts like clenched fists to pummel his opponents...
...production, thus put an end to the tangle of stopgap priorities NPA has used up to now. But civilian producers will be untouched by CMP under the present plan. They will be left to scramble for the metals that are left over, but whether the metals will be the bulk-or only a small part-of the supply is still...
Despite such voices as Robert Rounseville's in the title role, the impeccable playing of Sir Thomas Beecham and the Royal Philharmonic, and a charming first act in which Moira (The Red Shoes] Shearer dances as Olympia, the lifelike doll, the bulk of the picture is slow, obscure and pretentious. The script and direction, which borrow from Dali, Cocteau and Cecil B. DeMille, compound the vague symbolism of the Offenbach opera, leave the story line frayed and dangling. Whenever they are audible in the upper operatic range, the English lyrics sound banal. And the much-touted spectacle of Tales...