Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amtorg is a suite of offices on Manhattan's arch-respectable Fifth Avenue where businessmen from all over the U. S. deal with Red Russians who talk broken English but drive buying and selling bargains to a gross of $115,000,000 yearly...
...imports shrank from $383,800,000 to $300,000,000. Carloadings, a prime indication of the state of trade, were down to a weekly figure of 883,000 for March against 962,000 a year ago. This average, the poorest for March since 1924, found reflection in railroad earnings. Gross railroad income for February was down 10.11% from February 1929 while the $97,448,000 net was off 22.40% and was the worst result for February since 1918. Manufacturing production has fallen off so that the March figure (Electrical World statistics, 1923?25 = 100%) was 125% against 135.7% a year...
...fail to notice how much character it gives a woman's face to display her navel." From time to time in his travels Maugham met an outlandish character, was often made confidant of an outlandish story. In the teak forests of Siam he met a Frenchman, a gross fellow, who boasted of his recent prowess in venery, then seeing a copy of Verlaine's poems Maugham was carrying, seized it and read a favorite. "And as he read his voice broke and tears came into his eyes and ran down his face. 'Ah,' he said...
...attention has just been called to the published correspondence between Rev. Edmund A America, Walsh and headed TIME in the " Misleading the April 12 Public.'' issue ot This correspondence concerning the Russian religious situation seems to indicate a gross disregard and distortion on TIME'S part, of the real facts concerning the Soviet Governments policy TIME and readers record like to believe they are getting accurate and unbiased news reports. So I wonder if you would care to justify your handling of matter. ROBERT F. MILLER...
...were that, after his appointment, he had continued a business association, involving real estate, with his onetime law partner, which netted him $55,468; that he gave members of his old law firm bankruptcy receiverships which brought in $105,468 in fees. He was also accused of ''oppression, intimidation, gross abuse of discretionary powers...