Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...courier would have his hands full; in $2,000 Chinese bills, the payment would take up six cubic yards, equivalent in baggage bulk to two cords of kindling wood...
...discoverer of "perpetual emotion," once rebuffed a girl reporter from Manhattan's PM: "Don't tell me you print just facts. Nobody knows what a fact is." Since 1942 Frank Oliver, a restless redhead from Reuters, has been Bill Lewis' legs and has filed the bulk of the Times's copy...
...alltime high: $9,400,000,000. Canadian exports for the year, primed by nearly $2,000,000,000 worth of loans to foreign countries (much of it for purchases in Canada), hit a record peacetime high : $2,300,000,000. So did imports, at $1,900,000,000. The bulk of the trade was with the U.S. Canada entertained 20,000,000 U.S. tourists who spent $200,000,000 (up $40,000,000 from the year before). In 1946, some 418,000,000 bushels of grain from Canada's lush wheatland, some 1,250,000,000 lbs. of fish...
Sponsorship by the Students' Center attracted the large bulk of foreign dancers, when the weekly festivals started in 1943. Chief attractions have been a two-man band, refreshments, instruction by Nadel, and performances by outside expert groups...
...eastbound freight train had stopped on the main line with a broken air hose. Another freight, pounding east behind it, had crashed into its motionless bulk, knocked a locomotive and seven heavy-laden cars across the westbound tracks. Out of the night the Triangle raced at 70 miles an hour. Brief, bright showers of sparks gritted from desperately locked brakes. Then the Triangle hit the wreckage. Both its locomotives and three of its cars tumbled off the rails. A geyser of live steam shot up. Glass crashed, metal shrieked and groaned on metal. In the stillness which followed, the train...