Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people own most of the machines and the oil wells. The rest must work, starve or be supported by charity. And the great bulk work. Some few have learned the knack of living without work. They join the constant soup kitchen brigade. Many are too old or sick or maimed or insane. Nearly 100,000 people are in the almshouses, and more than 350,000 are in the state institutions for mental patients...
...gloom, for behind them in Newport were their wives and many a sweetheart. Forty miles to Long Island's tip slowly steamed the fleet, to drop anchor in Fort Pond Bay, sheltered by the curve of Montauk Point, where dimly through fog and rain could be seen the bulk of the Montauk Manor hotel above the cottages of the tiny fishing village of Montauk...
...Flood inherited the bulk of his father's estate in 1889. All San Francisco knew of his high living, of the beauty of "Jim Flood's girl, Pete Fritz," a German girl who got her start in Shanghai. In the same year his father died San Francisco was scandalized to hear that Jim Flood's girl had left her widely known occupation, that he had married her. His friends avoided him for a while, but he and his Girl lived together happily, adopted a child called Constance May. When Rosina ("Pete") Fritz Flood died her husband promised...
...promulgated by New York State Superintendent of Banks Joseph A. Broderick, who stated therein which of the many creditors' claims against the bank he allowed and which he did not. Of a total $254,639,733.26 of claims and other accounts payable, only $131,002,495.16 were allowed. Bulk of the rejected category, however, consisted in $102,000,000 claims against the bank by the receiver for its three bankrupt affiliates. Superintendent Broderick plans to pay a first 30? on each dollar of the accepted claims within six weeks. Among claims accepted were the following...
First-night audiences had already been bowled over by the sheer bulk of the production. In the pit was Conductor Cesare Sodero (formerly with La Scala, now opera conductor of NBC) surrounded by an orchestra of 90 men, most of them from the Cleveland Orchestra. Three operators regulated a $25,000 amplification system which used horns six ft. long.* Anne Roselle was Aïda. Paul Althouse, Rhadames, Pasquale Amato was Amonasro. Critics credited them with "signal ability . . . abundant breadth and vigor . . . impressive operatic authority...