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Word: bulks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week part of the treasure crossed the French frontier in the ragged pockets and worn suitcases of officers and men of the rear-guard brigade commanded by General Enrique Lister. But the great and incalculably valuable bulk of it was either hidden beneath rocks and trees in the Spanish Pyrenees-where it will be searched for until Kingdom Come-or had been blown to Kingdom Come in the courtyard of Figueras Castle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gold | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...Temporary National Economic (Monopoly) Committee functions much like a group of expert Big Apple dancers. After a spell of general activity, the bulk of the committee clears the floor, applauds politely while one of its members cuts a particularly fancy caper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Swing Session | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...since Editor Hertz frankly tried to collect all the stories rather than all the true stories, this anthology makes particularly easy reading. Its Lincoln is lovable, immensely humorous, quick as an eagle, wise as an owl, gentle as a dove. For the rest, the book adds to the bulk if not to the substance of the honest truth about Honest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Birthday Present | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Most present oil refining is done by thermal cracking-breaking crude oil's heavy molecules into lighter components by great pressure and heat. This process yields only 44% gasoline (the money-making product), leaves refiners with a great bulk of fuel oil and other by-products to dispose of. Phillips Petroleum Co. has lately found a way to convert some of these by-products into gasoline-through polymerization, which compresses wasted gaseous fractions of crude oil into the heavier molecules of gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Pharmacist to Catalyst | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...said, Director Wilbur L. Cummings told him he thought McKesson & Robbins was being badly managed, asked him to look into it. Mr. Catchings was told by President Coster that the wholesale drug departments, which did the bulk of the company's business, had got their assets frozen. Coster proposed a stockholders' equity receivership to get rid of the wholesalers, but Mr. Catchings talked him out of that. Instead, Coster persuaded the directors to hire Mr. Catchings at $5,000 a month as chairman of an operations committee, with the understanding that he was to have nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Catchings on Coster | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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