Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official accounting of the Johnson family's full fortune, disclosed by Trustee Moursund, indicates that the President personally owns about $400,000 in municipal bonds, ranch land, lake property, livestock and cash. Mrs. Johnson's holdings add up to $2,500,000-the great bulk of it ($2,030,000) in Texas Broadcasting Corp. stock. And the Johnson daughters, Lynda Bird, 20, and Luci Baines, 17, each hold $630,000 in Texas Broadcasting stock and real estate. That totals $4,160,000 for the family...
...strikes, operate day and night with rare breakdowns and only occasional pumping station overhauls. They eliminate the costly necessity of deadheading empty cars, barges or tankers, are so automated that only a handful of men can monitor a cross-country system. Pipelines are thus the cheapest transportation available for bulk commodities: gasoline can be shipped from Texas 900 miles to Chicago for less than a penny a gallon...
...does not imply," U.S. Ambassador to Saigon General Maxwell Taylor was quick to warn, "any change in U.S. strategy or in the command structure"-meaning that the U.S. was still not taking over direct command in the war or changing the rules. Like those who preceded them, the bulk of the new men will fan out into the most harassed provinces, not to command but to teach, cajole, curse, exhort, and occasionally inspire Vietnamese soldiers half their size, in what must be history's first war fought by on-the-job training...
...city in Southeast Asia. But the Malays simply said "Tida apa" ("It doesn't matter"), and rationalized their lowly condition with the help of the Koran, which they interpret as condemning commercial endeavor. As a result, the Malays are largely chauffeurs, street cleaners, firemen and cops, while the bulk of the Chinese are shopkeepers or larger entrepreneurs...
...Missouri's delegation to the G.O.P. Convention. "They'll vote this time. There is a great grass-roots uprising against the Republican me-too-ers and non-constitutionalists and one-worlders and the foreign press. This fellow Goldwater will sweep the nation." According to some Goldwaterites, the bulk of the 39 million Americans who failed to vote in 1960 were not lower income citizens who would be Democratically inclined. Instead, they were conservatives who considered both candidates too liberal. "We've never been offered a real choice in my lifetime," said Arlington, Va., Businessman Marvin Toombs...