Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Petroleum Board, which is headed by representatives of the Shell, Anglo-American and Anglo-Iranian oil companies. The Board buys oil from these companies, resells it to them for distribution. Retail profits are fixed, but the oil companies can set the retail price, presumably take a profit on bulk sales to the Board. Cockney comment on the Petroleum Board: "Oh my, ain't it a luvly...
...jotted down these things from day to day. Unfortunately some of rny original notes were lost; others I burned ... a few things I dared not write down. . . . But the bulk of my notes ... I was able to smuggle...
...Busy School will provide board, lodging, and classroom for the sailors, but the Navy will bring its own instructors. The bulk of the Middies will take over next week after Commencement is finished...
...SECRET OR THE BASTARD OF PINSK-Eleanor Farjeon-Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Period improvisations about An Old Lady's Past: notably her youthful diary and her wild, Daisy-Ashfordish first novel, which is printed entire. Bit by bit the whole thing is deft, neatly flavored, entertaining. In bulk it is more of one good thing than the average digestion can take...
...coast freight moved via the Panama Canal. Chief west-to-east items are lumber and wood pulp, canned goods, gasoline and fuel oil. From east to west the big items are steel and manufactured goods. Rail rates are from two to four times higher than water rates. On some bulk commodities this difference could add 25% to 50% to delivered cost. Recently this margin has narrowed, for many shipping rates have increased, while the railroad rates have...