Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1907 the Exchange has spent $21,600,000 advertising its brand name Sunkist. Last year its advertising budget included $1,450,000 for oranges, $581,000 for lemons, $34,600 for grapefruit. Average gross return to growers was about $2.30 per box. For advertising the Exchange assessed each grower 5? per box for oranges, 3? for grapefruit (Florida dominates that market), 10? for lemons, of which there is a perennial surplus. All other Exchange services cost 5.31? per box, and including those of district exchanges (less than 1? per box) total marketing and advertising charges amounted to about...
...Bingham implies that because the Nazis have promised not to discriminate against Jewish athletes that there would therefore be no discrimination. Are we to take the gilt-aged invitations issued to Gretel Bergman and Helene Mayer as satisfactory evidence of their good faith? Or are we to consider the gross violations of the Olympic Code contained in the cases of Dr. Prenn, the tennis player, Beelig, the boxer and Nathan, the long distance runner, to name but a few who have been denied access to the training facilities of have been driven out of the country...
...dental hygienist from Michigan read a paper on the history of the toothbrush. Lithe Dr. Julius Hughes of Atlanta scored 76 and 73 in the golf tournament to walk away with the low gross in Class A. There was a plantation dance in the Municipal Auditorium. A resolution was passed disapproving compulsory health insurance, another thanking President Roosevelt for his letter of greeting. Convivial caretakers of the nation's teeth roamed the French quarter, munched pralines, had Sazerac cocktails and crepes suzette for dinner. There was not much public oratory and reporters looking for details on such matters...
...well known figure once said. In the past, the Crimson has allowed itself to criticize the policies and methods of William Randolph Hearst. If I may be so bold, I would like to suggest that the Crimson has employed one of Mr. Hearst's finest tactics: the gross misrepresentation of news on the reactionary side. I refer specifically to the article on the Peace Meeting of November sixth...
Negrophiles are constantly poking fun at the names of Negro organizations in the stories of Octavus Roy Cohen, Harris Dickson, Roark Bradford et al., saying such names are gross burlesque. Following are the names of some Negro societies in Mississippi, transcribed from the records of charters of incorporation in the office of Secretary of State Walker Wood at Jackson...