Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Puleston deserves more than his meager fame as the expert who exposed Alfred Aloysius ("Trader") Horn. Indignation at the gross ignorance of Congo Africa which he detected in the "Horn-books" caused Dr. Puleston (a prosperous Miami, Florida physician of 20 years residence) to exclaim to friends, "I can't believe this man was ever in the Congo...
...wife of "Author Kirk Munroe," I wish to call your attention to a gross error in your issue of March...
...This exhibit is a Soviet caricature of the Sacrament of Holy Communion. It is depicted in such a gross, revolting and ghastly form that its public reproduction is impossible. The dismembered and disembowelled body of the dead Christ, depicted in a pale green hue, is surrounded by a group of priests, peasants and laymen who are ravenously devouring the flesh and drinking the blood which pours from the Saviour's side. Several of the figures, with countenances of maniacs and ghouls, are pulling forth the intestines and mouthing them...
...gross income of the U. S. natural gas industry was $196,000,000. In 1929 it was over $400,000.000. Ten years ago the industry was localized in the Ohio Valley. Today Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and California are centres of huge production. The construction of long, high-pressure pipe lines (such as the 540-mi. system extending from Monroe, La., to St. Louis), the constant investment of new capital (total natural gas investment is now nearly $2,000,000,000 as compared to $12.000,000,000 in the petroleum industry) and the growing appreciation of natural gas as an easily...
From a natural gas standpoint the new company will rank with Columbia Gas & Electric Corp. and Cities Service Co. It expects to market some 190,000,000,000 cu. ft. of natural gas in 1930. The operating gross revenue of its constituent companies, from natural gas alone, totaled $22,000,000 in 1929 and is expected to reach $26,000,000 in 1930. There also will be considerable revenue from oil, sulphur and gasoline operations. The territory served extends from St. Louis to Monterey, Mexico, including cities such as Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis, New Orleans, Dallas, Fort Worth. Beaumont, Houston...