Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gross and reprehensible practice" is this, complained Dr. Skinner to Representative Shannon. Three out of four men in Government hospitals are there for venereal diseases and other ailments not caused by their War labors. They cost the Government nearly half a billion dollars a year...
...average composer got $630 during the year; a hit-composer between $2,000 and $2,500. Tin Pan Alley feels this is not enough. Total time sold on the air last year brought Radio some 75 millions. From January to June this year, National Broadcasting Co. Inc. grossed $15,000,000, an increase of $3,000,000 over the first six months of 1931. Tin Pan Alley covets a juicier cut than its scant million. Last April A. S. C. A. & P. proposed a new deal. In the new contract which begins Sept. i, let the broadcasters pay in addition...
...bear. The bear in the zoo was finally named after the book. Winnie's condition last week was watched with keen interest in Manhattan by the Winnie-the-Pooh Association, exclusive U. S. licensers of Pooh toys, games, soap, rattles, etc. etc. W. P. A. claims to do a gross business of $50,000,000 a year...
...entry of two two-place gliders; one a Heraclio Alfaro flown by Lieut.-Commander Ralph S. Barnaby & wife (he made the first airplane-airship hook-on experiments by dropping from the U. S. S. Los Angeles in a glider); the other designed and flown by Dr. Frank Gross and Joseph F. Funk of Akron...
...Gross party was camping on South Mountain. Just before taking off for a soar, Dr. Gross put a kettle of potatoes on the open fire to boil. After wheeling & turning about the hills for an hour, Dr. Gross suddenly remembered his cooking, swooped low over the heads of the crowd on the ridge, asked someone to look to the potatoes, floated away again. (The potatoes were burned.) For 5 hr. 8 min. Funk & Gross stayed up, Dr. Gross becoming so weary that he let his legs dangle over the edge of the fuselage...