Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife's position was something like this. She said that when a man married a woman he signified an intention of being responsible for her the rest of their natural lives. If unhappiness causes them to separate, the law requires that he support her unless some gross act of hers has caused the separation. It was my wife's opinion that alimony curtailment was much harder on the woman, who had grown to expect it, than diminished income was to the man. She viewed with some alarm the prerogative of judges in this State to scale down alimony...
...sports which most foreigners identify with Mexico are second-rate bullfighting and revolutions. This is a gross injustice. Proud, excitable and much less torpid than they are reputed to be. Mexicans are ardent sportsmen, although they have invented no game of their own. Mexican boxing matches draw big crowds. Pelota (jai alai) gave rise to the game of fronton tennis, played with rackets instead of cestas. Yale's football coach, Reginald Root, got his experience coaching the first Mexico City University team which was good enough last year to hold Louisiana to 30 points. Mexican soccer and basketball teams...
Matches. Bolstering the Russian embargo the duty on foreign matches is upped from 4s 4d to 4s 9d per gross of containers. Imported cigaret lighters will pay a tax of 1s 6d each, a 200% increase. Domestic lighters will be taxed 1s, a 100% increase...
Universal Credit, which at its peak did a gross business of $200,000,000 in installment sales of Fords, Fordsons. and Lincoins, is now supposed to be doing about half that amount, Ford's price for it supposed to be $20,000,000. Doing similar business are General Motors Acceptance Corp., Commercial Credit Co. and Commercial Investment Trust. The latter two are independents, finance other credit sales besides those of automobiles. Commercial Credit handles Chrysler and Packard sales, C. I. T. has Nash, Hupmobile, Graham-Paige, Hudson, Studebaker. If C. I. T. acquires Universal Credit it will about double...
Cartoonist Lumen Winter supplies the drawings for the Post series, which was originally turned down by King Features Syndicate. Inventor Gross says he has an unlimited supply of material for his series. Anyone who wants to cash in on one of his notions may do so with his compliments...