Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blunt Dutch nose, slimy with seaweed, poked upward from the depths of San Francisco bay last week, was followed by the emerging bulk of Her Netherlandic Majesty's submarine K-XIII...
...insinuations that he owned 200,000 shares in the great iron manufactory, Baldwin's Ltd., and was therefore biased toward the coal owners and anxious to break the strike at the miners' expense) : "I hold the shares in question. That is absolutely true, and they represent the bulk of what I have. ... I might have been a rich man today had I sold' those shares during the War and transferred the proceeds into foreign securities...
...Foreign Commerce Department of the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. last week presented an array of statistical comparisons. It showed that on the 1925 list of U. S. imports, crude rubber stood first. Raw silk, coffee, cane sugar were second, third, fourth. Rubber gained in bulk as well as in value. Its total value imported was $429,705,000, a gain over 1924 of 146.6%. Its tonnage increased only 20.9%. (1924's price averaged 24? a pound, 1925's nearly...
...creaking necks, the Los Angeles soared over curious Manhattan, her third trip to the city but the premier under her new skipper, Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, one of the Navy's most experienced dirigible pilots. Pressing her untremulous way through the foggy May firmament, the silver bulk appeared at times to be perilously near the slim shafts of downtown skyscrapers. Assembled at their posts were 14 survivors of last summer's Shenandoah disaster. Not least among these was the stern-visaged commander. He succeeds Captain George W. Steele Jr., who returns to the more substantial water...
...CITY OF THE SACRED WELL -T. A. Willard-Century ($4). Here is the story, told by an intimate friend, of Edward Herbert Thompson - "Don Eduardo", as they call him in Yucatan-to whom is credited the bulk of modern archeological knowledge of the great Mayan civilizations. Reading explorers' books as a boy in snug New England, he connected himself with the Peabody Museum and the American Antiquarian Society, which obtained him the first U. S. consulship in Yucatan and opportunity to devote most of his life to baring the secrets of Chichen Itza, the Mayan capital. Besides constituting...