Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March. But no one knew better than Comptroller Pole the limited value of these statements in estimating the soundness of the general banking situation. Of all the assets listed by a bank only the items "Cash" and "U. S. Government Securities" can be taken at face value. The bulk of a bank's assets is in loans, discounts and investments. Whether these are good loans, good notes, or how much the bond account has depreciated, only the officers & directors know. Only a few institutions publish the due date and amount of each loan, list their bond holdings. Since...
Left. By Nathan Straus, Jewish philanthropist and merchant of Manhattan; an estate appraised at $1,302,658, the bulk of it in securities. He had explained in his will: "I have always been deeply impressed by an old Jewish proverb which says: 'What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold, what you give in sickness is silver, and what you give after death is lead.' (Many of the rich do not even give lead...
...With the bulk of the work now behind them, Coach Whiteside will undoubtedly devote the three remaining days to perfecting the raising and lowering of the stroke on which so much of the smoothness, feel, and spirit of a crew depend. An eight may row faultlessly at an even stroke, yet if it cannot raise and lower the beat at the cox's command without losing the proportion and rythm, it will not be able to meet the sprints of its opponents. From now on it will be the minor details which the coaches will watch out for, and especially...
...bulk of Dr. Walker's time and energy has gone to his big workmen's compensation practice. Employers must protect their employes against injury, a necessity which gives employment to specialists like Dr. Walker. Testified he: ''When there was work going on, why I saw the claim men." Dr. Walker hired doctors and nurses to tend this vast, personally solicited industrial accident practice. Cases which his hirelings could not handle he farmed out to other doctors in industrial work...
...dailies and 5,000 weeklies which have been sorted from great stacks of mail bags. (Newspaper subscriptions are a bureau's largest expense excepting labor.) Pasted on a wall before each girl's eyes is a typewritten list of clients and subjects most difficult to remember. The bulk of the 7,000 names and words for which she must watch is carried in her head. All girls watch for all clients. Twice each day a forewoman clangs a bell, summons the staff for "classwork" to a bulletin board on which are spread proofsheets of new items sent...