Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the land. Yet in the autumn of 1951, even the appetite for football was soured by the breath of scandal. More serious was the fact that investigations of organized crime growing out of the Kefauver hearings were getting nowhere. In New York a swarthy little gambler called Harry Gross insolently defied the law to do its worst, and the district attorney could only weep in helpless anger...
...sneering bookie was a little man named Harry Gross. The trail that led him to this courtroom fiasco went back ten years to a spot on Brooklyn's Church Avenue. Gross, then a rookie bookie, was furtively taking a bet off a customer when a plainclothes policeman came up. "You're a sucker for cheating this way," said the cop. Cheating, Gross found, meant breaking the law without paying off the cops. He stopped cheating, and by 1950 was the "Mr. G." of Brooklyn gambling, operating 35 places with 400 employees, handling $20 million a year, handing...
Though Lace on Her Petticoat made a lukewarm impression on Manhattan critics, it impressed Herman Shumlin's fellow producers mightily. Reason: the play, first legitimate production of the new season, cost only $36,000 to put on, and can survive on a weekly gross of $8,100. Despite adverse notices, it appeared at week's end that Shumlin's low operating costs might enable his backers to get something of a run for their money...
...Ford, 1947 Studebaker, 1939 Cadillac 60 Special and 1938 Lincoln Zephyr. Wrote Connoisseur Drexler in an accolade that, by clear implication, also rejected a good many other models that have come down the pike: "These cars contradict the claim that the American public prefers what is ugly, gross, or even vulgar . . . The dollar grin, as the American grille is known abroad, does not represent our best effort...
...Family. Together the Longoria brothers-Chito, Federico, Shelby, Eduardo, Alfredo-control 69 companies, employ 11,000 workers and gross more than $50 million a year. The brothers got a running start on their empire-building from their father Octaviano Longoria, who died in 1931, leaving his sons a tidy business in cotton, cattle, soap and cottonseed...