Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taste, or the diversity, of a collection which included prime examples of Hals, Gainsborough, Degas and Manet. His crystalline views of Venice by Francesco Guardi were matched against a soft, misty one by Corot. He contrasted Stefan Lochner's strict, gothic Presentation in the Temple with a tasty chunk of cheesecake by Francois Boucher, entitled Cupid and the Graces. Clearly, Collector Gulbenkian's appetite was wide and deep as his wallet...
...durable fish today is a baby whale in the U.S. economy; its gross last year was $700 million. Thanks to its early start, General Foods' Birds Eye-Snider division forms the biggest segment of the industry. Its 50-odd frozen foods this year will account for a sizable chunk of General Foods' estimated $500 million gross sales. Last week, to help it stay ahead, Birds Eye-Snider brought out the first frozen tomato-juice concentrate, hopes to have another bestseller...
...Parade's End Ford tried, like Tolstoy in War and Peace, to bite off and somehow chew a massive chunk of social history. It was Ford's belief that the industrial revolution had broken the back of the traditional England and that World War I had given the coup de grâce. In the struggles and frustrations of one Christopher Tietjens (a name almost as un-English as Hueffer), Ford tried to express the gradual destruction of a way of life for which (as Ford Student Robie Macauley puts it) "the world is an equable and logical...
...Tribune's advertising lead had jumped to three to one. To make matters worse, Hearst met rising production costs by cutting down on news coverage in the face of exhaustive, conscientious coverage by the Tribune. How much Hearst lost in Oakland, no Hearstling would say. (A healthy chunk went to cover severance pay, vacations, and two weeks' pay in lieu of notice.) But the loss was big enough so that no one was likely to start up another paper to challenge the monopoly of the Tribune...
...gain by defending themselves. They must do more than they have been doing so far. This is not only a matter of producing more weapons and training more men, but of organizing what is available more efficiently. The U.S. in, its turn will continue to foot a large chunk of Western Europe's defense bill. But it cannot now send more men to Europe...