Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This bribing of other nations to blockade Italy economically in the name of the League of Nations is a gross and unprecedented breach of the laws of neutrality," continued London's Evening News. "The Garden of Eden, as everybody knows, was ruined by a snake. The sanctioneers' Eden, it would appear, is to be saved by a pig-and a Yugoslavian pig at that...
...character than the mere money-getting American . . . bent only on amassing a fortune, and putting his fortune only to the basest uses-whether these uses be to speculate in stocks and wreck railroads himself, or to allow his son to lead a life of foolish and expensive idleness and gross debauchery, or to purchase some scoundrel of high social position, foreign or native, for his daughter...
From Sandy Hook to Seal Rocks last week, U. S. publishers hailed with delight the U. S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision outlawing the punitive State tax on gross advertising revenue by which the late Huey Long hoped to make all Louisiana newspapers with a weekly circulation above 20,000 toe his political line. In the office of the New Orleans Item-Tribune the tone of the jubilation was almost personal, for the Item-Tribune pridefull) credited a major share of the victory to the patience and acumen of its own lawyer, 38-year-old Eberhard P. Deutsch. Seldom...
...order to handle boom traffic, the road had to embark upon a development program which included double-tracking the main line from Jacksonville to Miami. Consequently $45,000,000 of bonds were marketed through J. P. Morgan & Co. Peak year for the 812-mile "Flagler System" was 1926, when gross revenues were $29,400,000, of which $2,700,000 were retained as clear profit. Next year revenues started to toboggan, reaching a low of $6,600,000 in 1933. Deficits piled up year after year until in 1931 Florida East Coast plunked into receivership. Interest was defaulted not only...
...different bond issues and 25 stock issues, the parent itself boasting two preferreds and three commons designated A, B and C. All the power properties were grouped in a sub-holding company called International Hydro-Electric. On a consolidated basis they represented two-thirds of International's total gross assets...