Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are pages of late Pennsylvania news, orthodox feature stories of national affairs. The bulk of the 400,000 circulation is attracted by the "departments"-Women's Realm; Household Helps; Odd. Strange & Curious; Live Topics for Women & Children; Clever Little Stories; The Story Section. Also there are comics. Will Rogers, and a Sermon for the People written weekly for the past 26 years by Rev. Stephen Paulson of Williamsport...
From that time on, with five exceptions, circulation mounted each year. The growth was stimulated by the employment of an army of boy salesmen who handle the bulk of Grit's circulation. Today there are 19,000 Grit-boys. An oldtime Grit-boy is Publisher John Charles Martin, head of the Curtis-Martin newspapers...
...Churchill jammed a bill through Parliament to buy control of Anglo-Persian for His Majesty's Government, so that His Majesty's ships might never fail for lack of bunker oil. Today only the U. S., Russia and Venezuela rank ahead of Persia in crude production. The bulk of the 45,000,000 bbl. annual output is tanked directly to Britain, Anglo-Persian having an agreement with Royal Dutch-Shell not to compete in the Orient...
...Coleridge was visited with the Muse and was henceforth haunted. Wordsworth was of the opposite poetic type. Whether the bulk of his literary achievements are so much greater than Coleridge's is uncertain. Whether his gift stayed with him to the last is likewise uncertain. He went on droning 'the still sad music of infirmity...
Last spring the Student Council compiled a graph which demonstrated in striking fashion that "the great bulk of new accommodations added by the House Plan have been priced at $280 and above per man, and that there is need for an increase in the number of medium priced rooms around $240 and $260 per student." With this report in mind, the administration has fixed the median of the new rates at about $260. Further than this, the whole scale of rents between $500 and $600 has been wiped out and large additions have been made to the number of rooms...