Word: batch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dwyer, the researcher called for everything on New York City. Told that that would mean some 800 folders, 50 books, and innumerable magazine articles, she revised her request somewhat. The research librarian selected a group of books he thought would be most valuable, sent along a batch of folders on finance, government, industries, etc., added some selected material from the periodicals file. As the story progressed, checking points inevitably arose on which the researcher needed specific information : the number of banks, art galleries, insurance companies, etc. Some of the figures were hard to nail down. But the end result...
...industrial machine sped along with hardly a shiver or a shake, the President's Council of Economic Advisers estimated that first-quarter profits had run at an annual rate of $30.5 billion, almost $2 billion better than 1949. The first big batch of first-quarter reports furnished statistical proof of the upsurge. Of 203 reports published by last week, 112 showed better earnings than...
...Stalino, an industrial city in the Ukraine, the main department store sold four times as many shoes, watches and jewelry in March as in February. Also: "Workers purchased 200 cars for their private use." (More probably, Stalino got its first big batch of postwar cars, and the 200 leading party functionaries duly latched onto them...
Last week's announcement by the Bauers was greeted with a breeze of offers for television, radio and movie appearances, a batch of bids by manufacturers of golf equipment and sportswear. Said canny, patient father Bauer, looking hopefully toward Easy Street: "I guess we timed it right . . . I figure the girls will make $50,000 this year...
Anthologist Ciardi, a Harvard professor and minor poet, 33, asked 15 "younger poets" (several are in their 403) to contribute a batch of verse to this volume and to write introductory statements about their work. It seemed a good way to present a fairly representative cross section of the serious new U.S. verse of the past decade and also to let the poets speak up in their own behalf...