Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...underwear are issued to the players. Added to this are 600 pairs of shoes: 275 helmets, which are collected after each practice or game: 200 hoods, on practice days, and from 40 to 50 on game days: 125 blankets, also collected each day: and, during the season, 25 gross of shoe laces, used in shoes, leg lacings, and shoulder pads. Twenty football's are given out every day to touch football teams: the Varsity squad uses atleast two new balls a day, and sometimes three, so that the total is 16 for every week. The used pigskins are then passed...
...William son's committee has been meeting in Manhattan off & on for the past month, has adjourned each time without announce ment. It is an open secret that Pennsy and Central are willing to compromise, but New Haven, which derives a bigger pro portion of its gross revenues from passen ger traffic than any other major U. S. road (38%), is flatly opposed to any & all fare-cutting. Observers believed last week that the Eastern roads might soon eliminate the Pullman surcharge and reduce the basic one-way fare to 3? a mile, but would hold the round-trip...
...paying personal income tax on the profits. The Government is now-trying to collect $95,000 on this account. Defaulted Bonds, It was brought out that in selling $131,000,000 of Brazilian and Bolivian bonds now in default, Dillon, Read and their associates had made $6,000,000 gross. One issue of Rio de Janeiro bonds bought by Dillon, Read at 89 was sold to the public at $97.75, the spread of 8¾ points being split three ways as commission between Dillon. Read as underwriters, the distributing syndicate and the retailers. One bond issue was floated...
...return of The Fool to Broadway, not with commercial producers alone but with the aid of the New York clergy. According to plans a theatre would be hired and a professional cast assembled. Tickets would be sold mostly by the churches, which would get 35% of the gross. The Greater New York Federation of Churches and the Brooklyn Church & Mission Federation would take 15%, the rest going for cost of production...
...York Stock Exchange and prognathous Mayor John Patrick O'Brien. The last, counseled by orchid-wearing old Samuel Untermyer, persisted stubbornly in his proposal to pile a city tax on top of the Federal and State taxes on stock transfers, and a 5% tax on brokers' gross incomes on top of that (TIME, Oct. 2). The brokers, suddenly awakened to the weight of their State taxes and determined not to bear the Mayor's imposts, were going swiftly ahead with their plans to move across the Hudson River to tax-free Jersey City and Newark. Carpenters...