Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Williams got interested in the income taxes of racketeers. Organized crime cannot exist without political protection, and it was only logical to suspect that the protection might extend to income taxes. Williams got and put into the Senate records the income-tax files of Harry Gross, Frank Costello, Phil Kastel, Ralph Capone, Greasy Thumb Guzik and others. Costello, for instance, was 20 years delinquent in taxes and had not been investigated for ten years. The Treasury protested that it couldn't collect from Costello because he didn't seem to have any property. Williams helpfully furnished...
...restaurant is almost as familiar as a gas pump. The Johnson chain, which got its start near Boston 24 years ago, now stretches along highways from Maine to Florida, has outlets scattered all the way to Wisconsin. This year its 355 "stores" will serve 250 million customers and gross $150 million; they constitute the largest roadside restaurant chain in the world. But Founder Howard Johnson, a husky 54-year-old who spends as much time on the road as his best customers, is not satisfied. His goal is to have at least one outlet in every state...
...Faculty was either ignorant of the way undergraduates took advantage of this ruling, or preferred to keep its back turned on the gross mishandling. According to Samuel Eliot Morison, in his "Three Centuries of Harvard," "term-time trips to New York, Montreal, and Bermuda became all too common...
...chairs were set up for the overflow customers who had to park their cars outside the theater. One hard-luck theater, Manhattan's Academy of Music, made a $12,000 refund to its SRO audience when the TV picture failed. Some theaters reported a gross of $15,000-more than they usually take in during a week of showing movies...
...made a dramatic entrance into the theater, striped pants showing below their white coats, to operate on a patient they had probably never seen. Skill and ingenuity are as important as ever, and some surgeons are famed for developing brilliant procedures-e.g., Boston's Robert (heart valve) Gross, Johns Hopkins' Alfred (blue baby) Blalock...