Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...receipts $1,345,000; 2) the Government turned over to TVA dams, electric and nitrate plants and other property valued at $133,000,000 which reappeared on TVA's books valued at only $51,000,000, with no reason given; 3) TVA wrote off as depreciation 10% of gross sales, or a total of $82,618 whereas Mr. McCarl figured that, even if TVA's low valuation on plant and equipment were accepted, at least $1,000,000 a year ought to be charged for depreciation...
...argument for TVA as a yardstick for private power rates. By its write-down of 62% on plant and equipment TVA can make a showing of breaking even on rates that a private company could offer only at loss. Similarly with depreciation, on the present 10%-of-gross basis, TVA will have to get more than ten times as much revenue to make an adequate depreciation allowance. Mr. McCarl commented: "There is very little basis for assuming that revenues will ever reach such a figure...
...Franklin Roosevelt negotiated a settlement of the threatened automobile strike on the basis of proportional union representation.* After 21 months of Section ya, the A. F. of L. had actually lost ground: it claimed some 3,500,000 members of the 28,000,000 men employed in industry, a gross gain, but whereas it had previously been the dominant unit of organized labor, now company and independent unions overshadowed the A. F. of L. in dozens of industries...
...swoop on the stinking feast from their five-foot-wide nests in the trees of Cat's Skin Mountains. Observers have been able to approach within 400 ft. of the birds. A truckman's wife counted 30 at one time through her field glasses. Ornithologist Alfred Otto Gross, who had never seen more than four eagles together, went skeptically down from Bowdoin College, beheld with his own marveling eyes 25 great scavengers grouped at their horrid feast. Reporting to the National Association of Audubon Societies last week that migrating as well as Maine eagles composed the group, Ornithologist...
Conducting or owning a brothel is a crime, as defined by Section 1146 of the Penal Law and unless you have information substantiating your assertions you have committed a gross libel upon a whole people...