Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only one man who started in the opener is on the present roster, and a handful of subs during the spring days make up the other veterans. The bulk of the team is new to competition...
...survey able to find out how much cash was tucked under mattresses and other favored "banks" of low income groups. Nevertheless, the survey might well cause businessmen to revise drastically their estimates of the size of the market, the length of the boom. If BAE was right, and the bulk of the cash was held by a comparative few, then the boom might run out of gas earlier than most economists anticipated...
...help of a nephew and employe, E. Allen Lustig, and his chief bookkeeper Joseph Sobel, Longchamps' had kept two sets of books, one for Henry, one for Uncle Sam. Profits on which taxes were paid were determined by avarice, not earnings. Fictitious expenses were put down; the bulk of the tips to hat-check girls ($5,000 a month) was pocketed by Lustig and not reported. Lustig's house hold expenses (and race horses) were charged up to corporation expenses; $18,142 went to a decorator, $913 for Mrs. Lustig's modes, $2,300 for her molars...
...average of 18.5? a lb. The U.S. has already closed down some ten high-cost synthetic plants, had planned eventually to shut down about two-thirds of the industry. But as long as the natural rubber price stays where it is, the U.S. will be able to keep the bulk of its low-cost synthetic rubber plants in operation...
...more police and soldiery (14,000) than industrial and commercial workers (13,171). The annual per capita income of the 1¼ million population is only $6. Because there is just one 274-mile railway and little more than 500 miles of improved roads, oxcarts still carry the bulk of the country's cotton, tobacco, quebracho extract (tannin...