Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through Washington's Union Station among the crowd hurrying to catch the 6 o'clock train to Manhattan. In his seat in the parlor car he was just one more traveler. Those who failed to recognize his square-cut features, his shag of greying hair, his solid bulk, little dreamed that they were witnessing the departure of a famed citizen on the greatest adventure of his life. William Edgar Borah, after 30 years of uncertain thought, was for the first time actually starting out to try to make himself President...
Left. By the late Emily C. Jordan Folger of Glen Cove, L. I.: an estate estimated at $2,000,000, the bulk of which was bequeathed to the great Folger Shakespeare Memorial in Washington, D. C., founded by her late husband, Standard Oilman Henry Clay Folger...
...address on "The United States of America" at a St. Patrick's Day dinner of the Charitable Irish Society, the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee was jovial and easy with reporters in his room at the Copley-Plaza last night. Minus coat, tie and collar, his six-foot bulk draped over the side of an armchair, he parried press questions and waxed very optimistic about Democratic chances next fall...
...prospective $40,000,000 Jones & Laughlin bond issue, three-fourths of which will go into new steel mills, and the $10,000,000 of equipment trust certificates to be sold by two of U. S. Steel's railroad subsidiaries for the purchase of freight cars, the bulk of corporate financing is still refunding-swapping new money for old.* Interest rates are so low that almost no solvent corporation can resist the temptation to call in old high-coupon bonds, pay them off with cheap funds...
Dispatches from the West, claim that two uncles and an aunt have filed objections charging that Mrs. Nieman was subject to undue influence and was of unsound mind when she willed the bulk of her $8,000,000 estate to Harvard...