Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ball powder (so called because the grains are spherical rather than rod-shaped) is formed chemically, not mechanically. It need be dry and dangerous for only a short time. Nitrocellulose, immersed in ten times its bulk of water, is liquefied by various chemicals, among them ethyl acetate, much used in nail polish. The liquid nitrocellulose rises to the surface of the water as a creamy lacquer. Stirring breaks it into globules, like olive oil in salad dressing. Other chemicals keep the tiny pellets separate. Speed of stirring determines the size of the grains of powder...
...Seagram's) produced 64% of all domestic whiskeys, owned 20 of 97 operating distilleries. By last week the same four owned at least 20 more of the smaller distilleries, and Deputy Price Administrator J. Kenneth Galbraith estimated that the big fry control 80% of all the bulk whiskey in the U.S. Topers had one safe bet: for the duration liquor will be both scarce and expensive. But they had one nip of comfort-the sober outlook for drinkers makes the outlook for Old Man Prohibition bleak...
Compared with the International Red Cross, which can visit camps in occupied lands and has a staff of some 5,000 persons in Geneva alone, the Vatican's place in the work of communication with prisoners of war is small. Bulk of its information concerns prisoners held in Italy...
...Rausch of the Arizona State Department of Health last month started a campaign to revive a pre-World War I product of the German colonies in Africa: dried banana loaves. The fully ripened bananas are dried on the plantation, pressed into 100-lb. blocks to be shipped in bulk with a 90% saving in load space, no loss by spoilage...
Fortunately, many State Conservation Commissions met the fishermen's problem in advance. They planted the bulk of their fish at accessible places: near railroad stations, bus lines, towns' edges...