Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only sells his oil in every country except Russia but also markets in all the 48 States, still dominates India. With his close British friend Anglo-Persian, he sells three-fourths of all Indian oil. In China U. S. companies do 65% of the business. Socony-Vacuum does the bulk of that. Texas Corp. is the only other U. S. company with important Eastern interests and they are relatively small. Last spring Russia started to flood China with kerosene. Prices were slashed 50%, the market demoralized. It was this Russian invasion, observers thought last week, that really forced the Jersey...
...rails. They began hunting for a shipyard long before President Roosevelt launched the Big Navy program. A shipyard would round out their setup. But Wall Street sized up the deal thus: Mr. Cord had shrewdly perceived that shipbuilding (in which labor is nearly 85% of the total costs) would bulk large in any public works program, that by buying one of the biggest U. S. shipyards he was sure to get some of the biggest contracts. New York Shipbuilding's capitalization made it easy for Lou Manning to negotiate the deal for his boss. Sole voting power...
...Enemies, if it seems a bit less malicious than the previous Aldington novels, it is because it is longer (574 pp.), less direct, padded. Author Aldington is finding it increasingly difficult to pick off the remaining bowling pins of pre-War cant and hypocrisy, having already sent the bulk of them crashing oft the alley...
...great bulk of child labor, however, is on farms. The 1930 census showed that of the 667,118 children under 16 gainfully employed, 469.497 were engaged in agriculture. These ranged from 6-year-old toddlers sweating in the Colorado sugar beet fields to strapping 15-year-olds strong enough to do their father's plowing...
Brightest spot in the steel picture is motor-making Detroit. Thence has come the bulk of the demand that more than tripled steel operations in the last three months.† Makers of automobile steel like National Steel (only major unit to pay dividends throughout the Depression) have come nearest to feasting. In the Detroit district steel operations have surged up to nearly 80% of capacity...