Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...didn't worry about the money until last Saturday when we journeyed to Old Nassau to fill in a vacant chair at one end of the Palmer Stadium pressbox. Along about 4 p.m. a Fact became obvious to 45,000 paying customers and a gross of freeloaders...
...what seems to have been a mood of gross overconfidence, the CCA included only a few strong candidates among the thirteen it endorsed for the City Council and the School Committee. As a result, the voters elected the strong candidates with overwhelming majorities, but either by-passed the weaker ones altogether or placed them well down on the winners list...
...subpoenas. It just wanted bookies to I) fill out form 11-C, giving their real names, their addresses and the names of their partners and employees, 2) buy a $50 federal tax stamp which, in effect, would label them as professional gamblers, and 3) turn over 10% of their gross business to the Government...
...things looked last week, it might never bring in $4,000. But it had a far more profound effect, which may have been the real intention of Congress when it wrote the new law: the gambling business of the U.S. almost came to a standstill. A 10% tax on gross business was probably more than the traffic would bear. Even more discouraging was form 11-C. Names and addresses on it would be open to local police, who are supposed to enforce antigambling laws in 47 states (gambling is legal in Nevada). Even a bribed policeman would find it hard...
...failure to buy this stamp or pay the ten percent tax on the gross amount of bets they handle makes a bookie liable to a year in prison plus a $10,000 fine...