Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother and his brother's wife own the business-the nepotist corporate structure which is another Hollywood characteristic. But neither the corporate structure, nor Mr. Disney's indefatigability, nor the 75 animators, nor the $75,000 camera, nor the $800,000 plant, nor the $2,000,000 gross explain the great Quality X in Walt Disney, Inc., the thing which in the past decade has sent thousands of feet of wonderful little animals and fairybook people dancing out into the world-people and animals whose appeal is so profound and so pervasive that they are loved by literally...
...priest, whose bishop had apparently not been consulted before the contest began, said that he had promised 75% of gross receipts to Promoter Clifford. But this was denied by Clifford, also under arrest last week in Cleveland. Post Office Department officials declared they had warned Father Cox he was subject to investigation when his contest started. Since no one ordered the contest stopped last week, "Garden Stakes" employes continued sorting names suggested for the garden of St. Patrick's Church...
...itself a certain reputation but no money. It lost many patrons to N. H. M.'s flashy Hotel Lexington, less than two blocks away. Hitz had taken over the Lexington in 1932, put in his old friend Charles E. Rochester as manager and by 1936 had upped annual gross operating revenues from $74,000 to $400,000. Last June when the Montclair was offered for sale, Hitz and a group of friends proceeded to buy it for $3,000,000. Thereupon, Hotel Lexington, Inc. canceled its contract with N. H. M. Manager Rochester quit Hitz to continue...
...before Mr. Carlisle called, the President dispatched to three Congressional committees a report of the New York State Power Authority charging private power interests with "gross exaggeration" in computing the costs of public hydroelectric power and "gross understatement" of private steam generating costs-a none too subtle reminder to Mr. Carlisle that any Roosevelt importunity was purely a matter of expediency. But Mr. Carlisle was wreathed in amiability. Emerging from the White House he declared blandly: "I had a very happy discussion of the general situation of the utilities. ... I think that the fears of Government competition are very much...
Asserting that undermanning in the stacks is responsible for gross inefficiency in Widener Library, an editorial in the Harvard Monthly yesterday accused the University of "a generally unsavory labor policy. Officials quickly refuted the charges...