Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engineers, three firemen, four conductors and a station master, charged with responsibility for the deaths of 68 passengers, injuries to 128 others, in a triple wreck at Kosina, near Moscow (TIME, Jan. 18). That same day four Siberian railmen had been sentenced to death before a firing squad for "gross criminal negligence" in causing a wreck.* Wives, kinsfolk and 1,000 curious Muscovites crowded the smoky room. Fierce, Trotskyish Chief Prosecutor Reuben Katanyan pointed a long, lean finger at the dazed defendants, described the wreck in lurid detail. "The passenger coaches were crushed like matches!'' he cried. "Forty...
...noon-hour in Symphony Hall. This hour was set so that those who do not get an opportunity to come to concerts at ordinary hours will be able to come to this one, in accordance with the wishes of Dr. Serge Koussevitsky, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The gross receipts will go to the fund for the unemployed of the City of Boston, the entire Orchestra and Mr. Gershwin donating their services gratis...
...list to which cinemanufacturers may have paid closer heed was compiled by Variety of the six pictures which drew the largest gross box office profits in 1931. Alphabetically, the six were...
...Khabarovsk, Siberia, four railwaymen of the famed Trans-Siberia Railway were arrested for "gross criminal negligence," swiftly tried and sentenced to "the supreme measure of social defense?execution by shooting...
...flung is the domain of American Commonwealths Power Corp., great public utility holding company. In the U. S. its operated properties serve 399 communities in 26 States. In Canada its system serves 250,100 people in three Provinces. Its gross revenues have been running at the rate of $26,000,000 per year with $2.800,000 left for the common stock. But last week Commonwealths, with $200,000,000 in assets, went into receivership...