Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then in quick succession he introduced the Sheaffer desk set with universal socket (which seals the tip of the pen and keeps it moist), the Feathertouch nib, the special Sheaffer pencil which "propels, repels and expels the lead," the Sheaffer Vacuum-Fil pen. By 1929 the company's gross sales had climbed to $8,000,000 and its profits, averaging more than $1,000,000, were ahead of those of one of its two rivals, Parker Pen Co. (The other, L. E. Waterman Co., has never published a financial statement...
...stupid, arrogant, and inarticulate person with an extremely red face. The French seem to mind our national complexion more than other nations. It gets on their nerves. They attribute it to the overconsumption of ill-cooked meat. They are apt, for this reason, to regard us as barbarian and gross. Only at one point does the French picture coincide with the German picture. The French share with the Germans a conviction of our hypocrisy. The sole difference is that, whereas the Germans regard us as brilliant hypocrites, the French regard us as very stupid hypocrites...
Left. By Inventor Thomas Alva Edison: a gross estate of $2,871,758. including worthless stock in 39 companies formed for Inventor Edison's research work...
While the Sikorsky 543 is an extremely interesting and valuable airplane it seems to me that-since it carries 16 persons, 1,000 Ib. of mail and express and has a gross weight of 19,000 Ib. and two engines, while the Fairchild carries 10 people, 1,000 Ib. of mail and express and has a gross weight of 9,600 Ib. and only one engine-it should more rightly have been called by you a Mid-Clipper or Youthful Clipper, just to keep the distinction clear...
Prime basis for the demand was that he had procured Army aircraft through negotiated contract instead of competitive bids. Among other things, he was charged with "dishonesty, gross misconduct, inefficiency, inaccuracy, unreliability, incompetency, mismanagement." Major General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, promptly stripped General Foulois of most of his powers, turned them over to Lieut.-Colonel Frank Maxwell Andrews as commander of the newly-organized General Headquarters Air Force...