Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From bowsprit to stern, the Sea Cloud measures 310 ft. She has a bulk of 2,323 gross tons, carries 36,000 sq. ft. of canvas on her four towering masts. Below decks are four diesel engines which can boost her along at 14 knots. Under sail, she can step up her speed to 16 knots. But it was not such figures that awed the roustabouts in Baltimore; it was the fantastic elegance of her fittings...
...Patiño of Bolivia; after a month's illness; in Manhattan. A woman in her early 30s, she had been given a fortune by her fabulously wealthy father when she married, and she became one of the world's wealthiest women when he distributed the bulk of his estate to his family last...
Used in industry or war work, the bulk of such items will be made from crude rubber. But civilian products must be made largely from reclaimed rubber, ordinarily bypassed by manufacturers because it wears out faster than natural rubber. Now Akron grabs all the reclaimed it can get. Its 1942 goal: 360,000 tons...
...many other fields, petroleum technology has suddenly eclipsed coal technology as a source of toluene. The oil industry is already handling the bulk of U.S. toluene production. The toluene capacity of by-product coke ovens now accounts for only about one-third of total production; the rest will come from two complicated (and increasingly hush-hush) petroleum processes...
Although all-out defense will ultimately force; production still further upward, the tapering off of non-defense industries may offset it for a while. Some of them are being cut off short. Last week OPM's tire ban ended for a time the bulk of the civilian sales of the rubber industry (200,000 employes, 200,000 tire outlets). The new auto quota cut foreshadowed no new passenger cars after Jan. 31. Washing machine output (7,000 employes) was cut to one-third of last year's; makers of juke boxes, pinball machines, coin scales, etc, (about...