Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Industry - elimination of midweek shut downs would effect savings representing the equivalent of increased gross sales of more than $750,000,000 per year...
...Reader Bliss curb his gross humming ; the Nylon girls each night wash out their stockings...
...Gogarty, "wittiest man in Dublin, has a sharp tongue and a thin skin. Two months ago the famed surgeon-poet-Senator-wit collected ?100 libel damages from poor Irish Poet Patrick" Kavanagh. Immortalized in Joyce's Ulysses (1922) as Malachi Mulligan, Gogarty declared that Joyce had perpetrated a gross libel. The Mulligan portrait, said its original, was a brutalized version showing only the bawdy side of his wit; Joyce had maliciously muted his subtler accomplishments, such as his poetry, his witty out-talking of Dublin's best talkers...
...bigger reason: in a good year, an average country doctor covering a wide territory may collect $5,000 in one-and two-dollar fees. But, said vigorous Dr. Lloyd C. Warren of Franklin, N. Y., 40% of this gross income must be spent for transportation and medical supplies. So the doctor's average net income is seldom more than $3,000. "Obstetrical cases," said Dr. Warren, "are about 50% loss. Automobile accidents . . . are about 100% charity . . . and the boys with venereal disease never come back...
...netted $10,236,000. Last year, although its gross business rose some $4,000,000, its net fell to $7,039,000. Reason: I. T. & T. took a $3,561,479 loss on foreign exchange, for many good sound I. T. & T. earnings in foreign currency turned out to be pin money when translated into dollars...