Word: gross
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some day see a letter in TIME with his own signature beneath it. When his letter is printed,-he will take his copy of TIME, frame it, and hang it in his front bay-window. Then he will go to all the newsdealers in the country and buy 8 gross of TIME and scatter them broadside among his friends and relations. He will even give one to each of his mother-in-laws. Ah! How great he will be. All the people who are so fortunate as to know him will look up to him as an author...
Saul G. Bron, affable, heavyset, but not gross, able Russian financier arrived on the Mauretania. He headed a commission of industrial leaders prepared, they said, to spend in behalf of Soviet Russia. $40,000,000 for machinery to aid in the modernizing of agricultural methods. Said Saul Bron: "The construction of tractors and trucks for the development of the country is our main concern. Our people are too poor to think of buying pleasure automobiles...
Grains. Despite low wheat prices, increased income for farmers was forecast, last week, by the Continental National Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago. The report predicted: gross income $100,000,000 to $150,000,000 larger than in 1927; 220,000,000 bushels of wheat, 75,000,000 bushels of corn, available for export...
...last week, of the "Vegetable-wise" policy of the Childs Co. Devoted to vegetarianism, President William Childs had offered patrons of his 120 restaurants every conceivable substitute for meat. He had invoked the experience of the heroic Greeks, meat-haters. Statistics of calories and vitamins filled his menus. But gross sales for five months of 1928 showed a falling off of 9%, while the common stock sagged from a high 74 in 1925 to a 1928 low of 38. And last week he yielded, but without grace. Inept, as a bid for popularity, were the advertisements inserted for the first...
...Setting down in slang the petty thought and emotion of lower-class America, John Weaver's verse, "In America" was a success. His success was partly due to simple spelling (Milt Gross's anagrams are too difficult), but also to his bright reflection of the city-dweller's curious combination of cynicism and sentimentality. The Brooklyn girl of his first novel has not enough of the cynicism to guard her against too much sentimentality, so she flounders miserably through a crush on the high school football hero, a passionate affair with a marine sergeant...