Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partner to assist him. Onetime partner in the firm of Cass Gilbert Inc. was John R. Rockart. In New York's Supreme Court last week he brought suit, claiming that during Cass Gilbert's lifetime he had an arrangement guaranteeing him "more than one-eighth" of the gross architectural commissions on which he worked. Since Architect Gilbert's death in May, 1934, John Rockart insists that he was in complete charge of the Supreme Court Building operations, hence deserves one-fourth of the profits on the building during Cass Gilbert's lifetime, three-quarters...
...researches ''of incalculable value" to medicine (explanation of oxidation and deoxidation processes in the body; methods of determining the acid-alkali balance in water purification and sewage disposal). Dr. Owen Harding Wangensteen, 37, surgery professor at University of Minnesota's medical school; the Samuel D. Gross Prize in surgery ($1,500) of the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery: for innovations in the treatment of intestinal obstructions. Percy White Zimmerman, 51, and Albert Edwin Hitchcock, 38, plant physiologists of the Boyce Thompson Institute (Yonkers, N. Y.); the $1,000 prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
...being built for American Airlines, has passed its tests, but is not yet in service. Similar to the DC2 in design, it is slightly longer, much fatter. Whereas DC2 seats 14, DST seats 24, has berths for 16. Cruising at 200 m.p.h., it can carry 24,000 lb. gross load, can fly across the continent with only one stop...
...Brooklyn, as firemen fought into a blaze in the office of Dentist Irving Winter, ten gross of toothbrushes with composition handles exploded, injuring seven firemen, two of them seriously...
...could safely stand a national debt of between 55 and 70 billion dollars. ... If the bankers thought the country could stand a debt of 55 to 70 billion dollars in 1933, with values as they were then, I wonder what they would say the country could stand today? . . . "The gross national debt under the last Administration rose from a little over 17 billions to 21 billions. The day I came into office I found that the national Treasury contained only $158,000,000. . . . Since March 4, 1933, the national debt has risen from 21 billions to 29½ billions...