Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minneapolis, Helen Gross, 22, convinced that she had been unfairly arrested for speeding, refused to leave jail after her mother paid her fine, was ejected. Thereupon Helen Gross returned to the scene of her arrest, drove back & forth with a banner affixed to her car: "Picket! This car is traveling at a maximum speed, 20 miles per hour. Do Not Pass...
...Major Bowes should care to incorporate, the books of Bowes Inc. would show by September a weekly gross of some $30,000. For the famed Bowes gong now reverberates far beyond his radio audience, in a half-dozen lucrative side lines. There are Major Bowes highball glasses, decorated with pictures of cat & dog amateurs; Major Bowes cotton fabrics, also decorated with amateurs; the Major Bowes alarm clock which rouses sluggards with a gong; the 25? Major Bowes' Amateur Magazine; the weekly Amateur Writers Page in Bernarr MacFadden's Liberty ; a parchesi-like Major Bowes Game; two monthly movie...
...both bodies in the family burying ground on the place where the unfortunate battle between the members of the finest body of State Troopers in the U. S. and two crazy colored people, with a Northern education, took place. This is certainly one time that TIME has made a gross misstatement, as those burning bodies were protected by members of this same body of men until the fire cooled sufficiently to allow them to be turned over to the undertaker. Perhaps TIME can answer why those bodies showed only slight charring from the waist to the shoulders, although other portions...
From this exposure of the Secretary's fiscal ignorance. Mr. May went on to challenge other Treasury reckonings. Even as rightly interpreted by Commissioner Helvering, he declared, the $4,500,000,000 figure was a gross overstatement of income to be made available for taxation by the new bill. The Treasury estimated that 1936 dividends will be only 8 1/3% greater than in 1935. Available first-quarter statistics reveal a rise of 18%. The Treasury estimated that corporations will distribute only 49% of their income to stockholders this year. But the Treasury's own figures show that...
...since he never laid off a man during Depression, has twice as many people working for him now as in 1931. Satisfied, too, is Monsanto's Queeny that the firm's market is so diversified that no more than about 10% of Monsanto's gross profit comes from any one of the more than 300 chemicals it manufactures...