Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effort has to be directed into the most economical channels. The Government's new role in industry constitutes an economic revolution against self-directing free enterprise. The Cleggs of the cotton industry and vigorous leaders in young industries like aircraft, plastics, and rayon textiles, might salvage a sizable chunk of the industrial process for free enterprise as it is known in the U.S. But in the planning for cotton, Britons could see the pattern for the British version of "free" enterprise, with the state as efficiency expert as well as overall planner...
Strange Sweet. This spring, Sybille went to work for the Americans, and things were a little better. Most meals consisted of soup and potatoes, with a thin slice of sausage and cheese three times a week in the evening, and a small chunk of meat on Sundays. By standing in line for hours, Frau Weidner could get bread and now & then some cereal. Sybille even brought home some G.I. candy for her small brother. Dieter looked at it uncomprehendingly. "What is that?" he asked...
...with the arrival of peace Scranton's 140,000 citizens, unwilling to accept a ghost city in a deserted valley, decided to bet a chunk of solid cash on a new future. Spurred on by civic leader Ralph E. Weeks, president of world-famous International Correspondence Schools, they formed a corporation (The Scranton Plan Inc.), wrote a campaign song (Buy Scranton Bonds), and, on street corners, in barber shops and bars, at luncheons and rallies, began collecting $100 pledges...
...take in more than $15,000,000. Of this, they estimated that no more than $3,000,000 was spent on advertising, promotion and mailing; another $2,000,000 for royalties; another $5,000,000 to print the books. Bookmen concluded: of the remaining $5,000,000, a substantial chunk was profit...
...committee wanted UNO to live just where a big chunk of New York City's wealthier commuters already live -in 42 square miles of southwestern Connecticut and New York's suburban Westchester County. Yugoslavia's Dr. Stoyan Gavrilovic pointed out the area's ad vantages. It was within easy commuting distance of Manhattan, where UNO dele gates would meet until the world capital was finished. It was close to railroads, the famed Merritt Parkway, the Westchester County Airport. The country was beautiful - green, rolling, dotted with fine houses, clubs, old towns...