Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus the U. S. entered the corn year last October with nearly 800,000,000 bu less than is usually needed to feed the country's hogs, cattle and poultry. (The bulk of the corn crop goes to market as pork beef lamb, duck, turkey, chicken, milk,' eggs' butter.*) To fill their feeding troughs farmers have had to use wheat, oats rye barley, pieced out with Argentine corn 'in the six months through last March corn imports from the Argentine amounted to 42,000,000 bu., more than three times as much as in the same...
What surprised even the best-informed artists and connoisseurs, as they made their way past a great collection of full-scale water color and photographic reproductions which filled three floors, was the sheer bulk of artistic material retrieved from the depths of the human past. Yet the Museum's exhibition was only a fractional facsimile of the 3,500 items in the Frobenius Collection at the Institute for the Study of the Morphology of Civilization, Frankfurtam-Main, Germany...
...Fifteen years ago the vast bulk of the Metropolitan Museum, the cluster of dealers along Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, and pre-auction exhibits at the Anderson and American Art Galleries (since combined), were about all the art that a visitor to Manhattan could see. Since then, thanks to public-spirited tycoons, the art map of New York has spread and sprouted richly. Today an art-conscious visitor should not leave Manhattan without a pilgrimage that will cover more than ten miles, take him into some 100 institutions. Among the most important stops...
According to the terms of the will of the late Helen O. Sprague of Wellesley, who died April 23, the University will receive the bulk of the estate, approximately $750,000, it was learned yesterday...
...Garner's Presidential boom and then rode the Roosevelt bandwagon into the Fourth Assistant Postmaster Generalcy, last fortnight announced himself as the new publisher of the Nashville Tennessean whose evening and Sunday editions compete with the Banner. Behind capable Publisher Evans' roly-poly person loomed the paternal bulk of huge Jesse Jones and the RFC (TIME, Oct. 21, 1935, et seq.) whose interest in the Tennessean seemed to guarantee the New Deal a strengthened friend in Nashville and the Banner a strengthened rival...