Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author of the new feature is Ray Gross, 38, a dark, dome-browed man who worked five years for Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. and who has been inventing things for 18 years. When he managed a chain of clothing stores he got the idea for the pants-presser. While working for Goodyear, he says, he actually landed a blimp by means of a harpoon-anchor like the one which he depicts in his cartoon series. Two of his inventions are now in production: a coathanger with attached compartment to hold mothballs or perfume; a truck tailgate which lowers to receive freight...
...chains maintained dollar volume over this period was to open or acquire a substantial number of new stores. At the same time that the number of stores increased, the sales per store increased, the sales per store decreased sharply; and while store inventories were substantially reduced, the rate of gross margin declined only slightly. The effect of the decrease in sales per store, however, was to increase the total percentage cost of doing business...
Brentano's, Inc., largest retail book chain in the U. S., passed into receivership. Gross sales last year were reported "about $1,500,000" as compared to $3,000,000 in "a good year." Cause for the receivership was the petition of seven publishers to whom Brentano's owed sums up to $19,000 each. For some time the firm has been operating on a standstill agreement providing the freezing of some $375,000 owed to publishers. Last week two or three publishers grew restless. Receivership followed. Other publishers pointed out that if Brentano's were forced...
...President would "constructively"' balance the regular Budget, ordinary receipts against ordinary expenses, and perhaps have a small surplus. All extraordinary outlays, derived from long-term bond issues instead of current tax receipts, would be set aside for the next generation to pay off in better times. Thus the gross Public Debt would continue to mount as the result of capital investments but the annual Budget would look trim and shipshape...
...plot, though hackneyed, receives a sincere portrayal from the principals. A nice modicum of reserve in every detail of acting prevents, happily, the full realization of the chance for gross emotionalism. Such a background, of course, forms a perfect foil behind any genuine female charm, and Miss Helen Hayes takes full advantage of her chance. She is an unconvincing Chinese, but a superb mistress of the situation. Lien Wah's delicately expressive hands, and quaint self obliteration weave an incapable feminine charm through all the mess of uninteresting Oriental gore...