Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President-elect began by accepting President Hoover's own estimate of the 1934 deficit-$492,000,000.* His conferees promptly told him that this was a gross understatement as it anticipated full War Debt payments and was based on revenue estimates by the Treasury which he had flayed in his campaign as misleading and erroneous. But Mr. Roosevelt had no heart for making his job any harder by assuming a larger deficit than his predecessor calculated. He began to cast about for additional receipts with the following results...
...angel" of the state Democracy, ran for governor in default of other candidates, thrice was beaten. None was more surprised than he when on the fourth attempt he won last November. As the first Democratic governor in 16 years, he recommended to the Democratic Legislature a combined sales and gross income tax, old age pensions, direct relief for jobless and a change in the local Dry enforcement law to conform with the November repeal of state constitutional Prohibition. Every year he goes hunting, kills his buck...
...stiff tariff and still undersell the products of U. S. industry. Czechoslovakia, he cited, can lay down rubber boots in the U. S. at $1.16 a pair. They cannot be duplicated by the U. S. for less than $1.48. Japan sells celluloid combat $11.06 a gross against the best U. S. price of $25.86. Certain grades of European steel are so cheap that even if all labor cost was eliminated, U. S. steel mills could not compete, etc., etc., etc. The results, said Mr. Blythe, are closed factories and unemployment. Furthermore, he insisted, the products are of inferior quality...
...first story' is Fanny, a shy, embittered woman whose career (she is a writer) is overshadowed by the much flashier success of an old girlhood friend, Victoria., who uses herself as material for love-affairs, her affairs as material for her best-selling books. Victoria is gross, cynical, shrewd; somehow her daughter turns out to be the opposite. She soon sees through her mother, takes her affection to Fanny. When the daughter marries a nice young man, Victoria's Bohemian creed is horrified and she tries to break it up. But youth wins out. Aging Victoria shrugs...
...twelve months ending last August the American Bankers Association reported that three bank employes, two customers, nine peace officers and 38 gunmen had been killed in bank stickups, 124 persons wounded in the gunplay. In the same period bank robberies throughout the land totaled 631-a record. Gross loss was $3,384,117. All but 77 of the robberies were committed in broad daylight...