Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus it surprised nobody last week when Ted Sorensen, 35, submitted his letter of resignation to President Johnson. He had told Johnson in December that he wanted to leave, but the new President persuaded him to stay on for a while. Sorensen contributed the bulk of Johnson's first speeches-his address to the nation after the Kennedy assassination, the State of the Union message. In addition, he has been working on Johnson's special messages to Congress on the Administration's program for the coming year...
...More. Many oldtimers are willing to go along with union opposition to overtime because they do not want or need to put in extra hours at work; average factory wages in December, after all, hit a new record of $102 a week, or $2.50 an hour. But the bulk of younger workers, burdened with the expenses of setting up households, are eager for any additional cash. Says William Goldmann, assistant regional director for the U.A.W. in Los Angeles, "Our members start complaining about excessive overtime, and we get them down to nine or ten hours a day. They work like...
...when he turns to literary criticism--and this takes up the bulk of the volume--that his historian's experience betrays him. It was Rowse's professed hope that by the use of proper "historical method" he could establish firm dates for the plays and poems, and then go on to unravel topical references in the material, as well as problems in Shakespeare's life...
...unit, a second paratroop battalion, infantry and civil guardsmen, and were being pounded by air and artillery that killed or wounded an estimated 100 Reds. But the second paratroop battalion, ordered to move in and block a Viet Cong retreat, timidly stood off, leaving great gaps through which the bulk of the Reds escaped at dusk...
...upstate New York does practically all of its business hauling wines from the state's wine district. The Camino, Placerville & Lake Tahoe, which clears about $6,000 annually, services two northern California sawmills. The Virginia Blue Ridge Railway, only 17 miles long, does most of its business hauling bulk freight for a quarry and an American Cyanamid plant in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains...