Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Georgia's Solicitor-General Marvin Gross, who refused to call a special grand jury to investigate: "I know Erskine Caldwell personally. He is just a fellow who likes to talk. . . . The killings which Caldwell has related are nothing out of the ordinary...
...announced than half a dozen agencies preened themselves on having instigated the raid. Among them were the Daily News, the World-Telegram, the New York Foundation, which had paid for an investigation begun two years ago, a grand jury which had recommended an investigation of the prison's "gross mismanagement" last year. Plain, however, was the fact that it took an anti-Tammany administration to dig to the bottom of Welfare Island's cesspool of corruption...
Last week the Port of New York Authority issued a preliminary income account for last year. Gross revenues (chiefly tolls and rent) were $10,250,000. Net income, after deducting all operating expenses and interest on over $140,000,000 of bonds, was more than $2,000,000. At the year end the Authority had cash & securities of $20,600,000 - more than enough to meet all bond maturities for the next five years...
...before. ''It was our job to see that the daily cash market . . . was kept open, and we did it,'' said President Swift at a stockholders' meeting in Chicago last week. "No meat surplus spoiled for lack of facilities." He informed his stock holders that gross sales for 1933 had been a little over $500,000,000, that tonnage had increased 6%, but that profits were only a fraction of a cent per pound. Then he added...
...actors, and also by the escort of the deaf lady in the next box, we gathered that the theme of the play was nothing less than the attempt of a god on shore-leave to rob a young dance-hall hostess of her maidenhead. Two other tars, gross fellows all, lay bets upon his enterprise. This plot is a simple one, and it is thematically unvaried throughout. If you are looking for an evening of good 100 per cent American smut, this is it. There's no nastiness in it; the only cloud in the welkin of direct and open...