Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merchants rubbed their hands joyfully last month when the city ordered $67,092 worth of woolen goods to be made into winter coats for needy women & children by WPA workers. Last week city inspectors rejected half the cloth submitted. Twenty merchants had supplied good goods. Six others, with the bulk of the orders, had tried to palm off material containing moth holes, streaks, bare places, weak spots. Angered, Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick gave the six a chance to make good before publishing their names. Still hopeful, one shyster took back his shoddy, resubmitted it as a new delivery...
Shasta Dam will be one more world wonder for Californians to boast about-more than half again as vast a bulk of masonry as the Great Pyramid, only 167 ft. lower than Boulder Dam (world's highest: 727 ft.), only 700 ft. shorter at the crest than Grand Coulee (world's longest: 4.200 ft.). World's No. 2 Dam in these respects, it will be No. 1 for the height of its overflow: 480 ft., or thrice the fall of Niagara...
About a year ago, Wall Street underwriters foresaw another upturn. Some 135 loans, big & small, had been announced. Suddenly a double disaster occurred. A $44,000,000 issue of new Pure Oil stock attracted so little interest underwriters had to put the bulk of it in cold storage; on $48,000,000 worth of Bethlehem Steel debentures underwriters were estimated to have lost $1,725,000. Other businesses contemplating new stock and bond issues called off their plans...
...published September 19, had already reached the 8,000 mark. Hard at work on a new novel at his bungalow in Los Gatos, Calif., Novelist Steinbeck meanwhile awaited a check for $6,000 covering back royalties. This will bring his total earnings (Of Mice and Men accounting for the bulk of them) to around $50,000. In another 17 years, when he is 53, he figures he will have saved enough to give him an income of $35 a week. That will be enough, says...
...Field artillery has 21,996 men, 1,627 officers in 28 regiments. Its best equipment is second to none in quality but short in quantity. Bulk of its best weapons are French field guns left over from the World War, modernized with new carriages and firing mechanisms...