Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shanghai & Nanking raged, ranted. "The crowning of this doll," cried Shanghai's Sin Wan Pao, "grossly insults the whole Chinese people. We must continue the revolutionary spirit which resulted in the Manchu dynasty's overthrow to clean away this gross humiliation." Added the China Times: "It is preliminary to Japanese expansion in Mongolia whose people are devoted to the Manchu household...
...importance in relation to the constantly growing tendencies of the Roosevelt Administration to resent criticism, however fair, and to slander all who dare cross the path of its policies. . . . We hope that Mr. Roosevelt will see fit to apologize to the Press of the nation for this gross insult...
...this method the artist knows pretty well in advance of the season about how much his gross income will be and on the basis of such calculations he incurs obligations and budgets his own financial commitments for business expenses and otherwise. This plan contemplates that local managers become entrepreneurs. They attend to all the necessary local arrangements, sell the tickets and keep the receipts over and above their expenses. They engage in business for profit...
...requires every listed corporation to file with the Exchange and the Commission . . . annual and quarterly reports, including both a balance sheet and profit and loss statement . . . monthly reports including among other things, a statement of gross sales or gross income. . . . Sec. 18 (B) permits the . . . Commission to prescribe the forms which must be used; the items and details to he shown . . . also the methods to be followed in preparation of accounts, in the appraisal and valuation of assets and liabilities, in the determination of depreciation and depletion...
Although U. S. merchant tailors gross $80,000,000 annually (1932), they clothe less than one out of every 100 U. S. males. And tailors like Twyeffort and Bell of Manhattan, Dunne of Boston, Stewart of Philadelphia do only a fraction of that business. But the customers for whom they make $120 sack suits (1929 price: $150) are generally to be found sitting at the head of most directors' tables or behind ultra-modest little signs labeled "The President...