Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lynchburg, Va.'s seven city fathers last week looked sheepish as men who had gone to school with them pointed derisive fingers. The Lynchburg council had made a monkey of itself over arithmetic. The council was about to tax Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of Virginia 3% of its gross revenue for doing business in the city, when a councilman suggested that the franchise tax be set at 1½% and the company be required to provide city officials with 40 free telephones. A 3% tax was calculated to yield $8,000. The annual charge for 40 telephones...
Stripper Corio explained her principles: "I don't like to be called a Stripper. In fact it absolutely galls me. But as long as they give me the money, that's all I look forward to. ... Why should I give up my percentage of the gross for $100 a week and glory? * . . . Where are all the Broadway beauties now? When I finish I'll have a bankroll...
...road Stripper Corio receives 15% to 25% of the box office gross, gets $750 a week in New York...
...assumption of the public that the Court's decisions depend almost wholly on the private political likes of the Justices is a gross exaggeration. As Justice Cardozo pointed out in an essay, the job of the courts is to apply the Constitution and the law in cases where they are obviously meant to apply. In other cases it may be necessary for the Court to search for the intent that was behind a law to fit a particular case. Then interpretation comes into play. It comes still more into prominence when a case arises which...
...with Tilden Mr. O'Brien amply demonstrated that a big tennis player can cash in handsomely on his talents. Net of last year's operations was $144,000. Vines got a flat 50% of that. This year he is going to get only 12½% of the gross, expected to run around $200,000. The new attractions, Lott and Stoefen, will be paid on the same basis...