Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coal prices to railroads which buy in bulk have always been substantially lower than prices to home owners and other small consumers and a prime conviction of the Coal Commission is that rebate practices have favored industry and railroads at the expense of small consumers. Therefore, in setting up minima, the Commission arbitrarily raised the price of railroad coal to a level nearer that for small consumers. The A. A. R. protested through John Carson, consumers' counsel, whose job was specially created by the Guffey-Vinson Act to protect the consumers' interests. But the B. C. C. refused...
...rallied white-haired Choreographer Michel Fokine, several of whose past creations (Don Juan, Les Eléments, L'Epreuve d' Amour) already studded the proposed repertory of the Massine-World-Art company. Besides the exclusive future services of Choreographer Fokine, the Obolensky-de Basil company acquires the bulk of the present repertory costumes and scenery of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo; claims sole right to the use of the term "Ballet Russe" Both factions are proceeding to gird themselves for rival U. S. tours next season...
Veteran Tom Bolles advised the Yardlings to take a look at the Varsity and remember the 1940 Olympics. "The bulk of next year's Varsity is very apt to be composed of Sophomores'," he said...
...Navy he proposed to give nearly $800,000,000. Part of this would go toward boosting the Naval Air Force from 1,900 planes to a thundering 3,000. Some would go toward increasing personnel by 1,200 officers, 20,000 men. The bulk of it would go into the most expensive and complicated machines ever devised, modern warships...
Just north of Bozeman, Mont, rears the 9,106-ft. bulk of Bridger Peak, near which years ago was started the Flaming Arrow Dude Ranch. Woodcutters and ranchers working in Bridger Peak's thick fur of timber presently heard the din of Nick Mamer's two motors. Looking up, they spotted the glistening airliner hovering in apparent difficulty over a small clearing. In a twinkling it plunged straight down, bashed its nose into the frozen ground so hard that the plane telescoped like a tin drinking cup. BOOM went the gasoline tank and instantly the wreck...