Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhine's experiments are more impressive for bulk than for complexity. He uses a pack of 25 cards bearing five designs-a circle, a star, a plus sign, a rectangle, a band of three wavy lines-and there are five cards of each design in the pack. For clairvoyance, the pack is thoroughly shuffled, laid face down on a table, and the subject is required to call them off in order from top to bottom. In telepathy, he is required to guess the card visualized in the mind of an agent. Since at every step there is a choice...
...necessity of shipping an enormous volume of freight in an eight-month navigation season has compelled not only efficiency at Great Lakes ports but economy in Great Lakes ship design. Distinctive Lakes craft, introduced in 1906, is the standard 600-ft. bulk freighter, which resembles nothing so much as a huge steam barge with a minimum of upper-works fore & aft, engines and smokestack so far aft as to seem astern...
...fewer than two billion were broken, canned and frozen. In this state they have been or will be purchased and thawed out for use by big manufacturers of mayonnaise, macaroni, pastry, candy and ice cream. Frozen eggs differ from cold-storage eggs in that they are packed in bulk, not in the shell, are not merely chilled but actually frozen at sub-zero temperatures and may thus be preserved for from one to two years, whereas cold-storage eggs are usually kept not more than six months. Last week frozen eggs became a fullfledged commodity in the Midwest when...
...dumb and docile as the hotel furniture, impertinently sprawled down in lobbies and lounges, left them littered with cigaret butts and wastepaper, refused to serve food, carry bags, make beds, man elevators. Smelling trouble, managers of the Book-Cadillac, Detroit-Leland and Fort Shelby tried to lock out the bulk of their employes, but a flying squad of would-be sit-downers crashed the Book-Cadillac, one pistol shot being fired in the scrimmage...
Also before March 15, the Treasury expected $840,000,000 in payments. This also was a misprision. By the end of last week when the Treasury had counted up income tax receipts for the first 20 days of March (during which the bulk of the first quarter's income tax payments are made) the total was $650,000,000-67% more than in the same period a year before, but short of expectations. It is now a question of whether the President's prediction of Federal Revenue for the fiscal year may not prove several hundred million dollars...