Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain proportion of its rooms priced at the lowest level the sunless room could be rented at that figure. Multiple suites could be rented to the many groups of men who seek entrance into a House in a body. After pricing at low figures these less desirable rooms, the bulk of the rooms in the House would remain available at slightly higher rates...
...combined, jam-packed the stone-cliffed canyon of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue for half a day last week. Three out of every ten New Yorkers were there, 2,000,000 strong. They fainted, they cheered, their feet hurt, their clothes got mussed. At 58th Street their sheer bulk bulged through splintering plate glass windows. The Governor's motorcycle escort rode one down. A pack of them upturned a policeman and his screaming horse. There never had been so many people gathered anywhere in the nation since Armistice Day. Nobody in town, not even the blind news dealers...
Standard Statistics Co. Inc., world's largest figure factory, estimated that $1,000,000,000 had flown the Atlantic, the bulk of it to London. France, whose tie to gold is none too secure, has received little, but Holland and Switzerland have been drowned in dollars. Unlike the export of gold which is strictly banned,* the flight from the dollar has been quietly encouraged by Washington; it pushed down the price without requiring devaluation by Presidential decree...
...Stetson's hat fortune when she died in 1929. As a director of John B. Stetson Co., Broker Stetson has watched his father's business become one of the largest fine hat-makers in the U. S. It still makes ten gallon models, but the bulk of its $5,000,000 annual sales is quality hats for men.* A rigidly enforced rule at the John B. Stetson Co. offices in Philadelphia: that no employe may pass the Stetson portals hatless...
Though she has lived among artists and pictures all her life there is nothing precious or arty about her. Two subjects which bulk large in ordinary lives-money and love-she hardly mentions in Alice B. Toklas. It is a strangely impersonal book. Her only reference to her interior life is the admission that when she was 17 ''the last few years had been lonesome ones and had been passed in an agony of adolescence." If curious readers wonder why she passes over these matters so lightly, they may answer themselves by reflecting that no doubt Gertrude Stein...