Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scribed it in the program as an "escape from the rather bitter type of modern musical realism which occupies so large a place in contemporary thought." He had used melodies which were conventionally sweet. His horns sang out politely over tremulous violins. Critics were not impressed but the bulk of the audience was far more enthusiastic than it had been over the stark, sardonic symphony of Bernard Wagenaar, played earlier in the season, or over the picture music of Abram Chasins which Toscanini played two years...
...until last week, cost Rustless Iron nearly $500,000 and considerable business from buyers fearful thatthe company would lose the suit and make them liable for damages. So simple is the Wild process that Rustless Iron can make stainless steel at a substantially lower cost than other patent steels. Bulk of its $1,000,000 sales go to Ford, General Motors, American Rolling Mills, Superior Steel, U. S. Steel...
Standard Statistics Co., world's biggest figure factory, computed profits of 674 companies for 1932, found that the aggregate earnings were $325,584,000, down 68.7% from 1931. And the bulk of these profits were from utility companies whose total profits dropped only 20.8%. With the conspicuous exception of oils, shoes, drugs, foods, chain stores and tobaccos, industrial earnings practically disappeared, amounted to less than one-thirtieth of 1931 earnings. Rails, of course, showed a staggering deficit...
...Lottery stake Bonfils pyramided fat profits from the Post, from the coal business, mining schemes, oil, real estate, Denver's Empress Theatre (burlesque). He used to tell friends that he was worth $60,000,000. Most Denverites think the correct figure was nearer $10,000,000. Bulk of the fortune was tied up in a family corporation, Boma Investment Co. Bonfils, who had visited Africa, named it for the thorn bomas built by natives "to keep beasts out." The Bonfils will, opened last week, left practically the whole estate (amount unspecified) to "The Fred G. Bonfils Foundation...
That precisely is the point. In so far as it has a doctrine, National Socialism promises the bulk of the German people whatever they want. Also its "Storm Battalions" offer shelter, food and a pittance to perhaps 200,000 German unemployed. The money comes from rich Germans who expect favors from Chancellor Hitler and from every German who has dropped a copper into the box thrust at him by a young Storm Trooper...