Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fabulous right-hand punch which had once killed a man. In all earnestness he had told reporters: "I'm scared stiff I'll kill Braddock. I dreamed last night I hurt the boy. I woke up in a cold sweat." Most sportswriters had branded the contest a gross mismatch, had almost unanimously picked Baer to win in the first few rounds. In the first three rounds the fun-loving Californian justified his reputation for high jinks. Dancing about in his black trunks adorned with a six-pointed Star of David, Baer feinted ferociously with his right, then danced...
...wrong to lay all of the blame for gross inefficiency on the former regime. In fairness it is essential to recognize the obstacles that they faced, obstacles which often precluded the possibility of successful operation...
Then Senator Brown put into the record copies of complicated contracts between operating utilities and their affiliates by which the operating companies paid 2½% of gross earnings for management, 7½% of gross cost of constructing plant and equipment, 1½% of the cost of all purchases, a 30% margin of profit on sales of electric appliances to their affiliates- to illustrate ''how the profits of an operating utility can be siphoned out by a holding company." "It is," the Senator declared, "merely a scheme whereby the local utility does the same business it did originally...
...store take elocution lessons so that they may sing out "Third Floor, Ladies' & Misses' Underwear!" in the proper way. (He also insists that the girls be young and demure, with busts no larger than 36 in.) A shrewd and canny businessman, he lifted Strawbridge & Clothier's gross revenue from $20,000,000 in 1933 to $23,000,000 last year, reported earnings of $331,000, best since 1931. Active in forming the American Retail Federation for binding retailers into a national organization (TIME, April 29), he is regarded in Philadelphia as a pillar of the Chamber...
...great-grandson of J. Pierpont Morgan, were snatched. For the Weyerhaeusers are the royal family of the U.S. lumber business. Their kingdom, sprawled from Wisconsin to Washington, is a broad 3,000 square miles of the country's best timberland supporting 94 Weyerhaeuser-operated or affiliated corporations which gross $20,000,000 a year. The fact that the Weyerhaeusers and associates have lost up to five million dollars a year for the past decade has not worried them overmuch...