Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increased building construction if credit facilities become easier; 2) real buying from the railroads after the I. C. C.'s rate decision; 3) bigger demand from, the automobile industry in November. A disturbing factor was the new low price for steel scrap registered last week, $8.03 per gross ton against $9 the week before...
Ends: W. L. Claff '33, F. G. Crocker '34, W. W. Crowninshield '32, H. L. Fain '34, A. A. Lawrence '34, J. E. Lightle '33, W. E. McCanon '32, W. J. McTigue '33. Tackles: J. E. Beaumont '33, H. E. Brown '32, A. J. Bush '34, H. Gross '33, E. S. Holden '33, E. Parker '34, G. W. Wickersham '32. Guards: Karl Adams '33, L. Brooks '33, C. Cheever '34, A. Dryer '33, P. H. Futcher '32, B. Ginsberg '34, H. Ulfelder '32. Centers: Brown, Forbes, G. J. Huberman '34; H. J. Bourneuf '33. Quarterbacks: Eustis Dearborn...
...Dramas in the Life of a Great Newspaper System") depicting the exploits of Scripps-Howard newspapers, had cause for rejoicing last week. Their chain's Columbus, Ohio Citizen had performed exactly the sort of feat on which Scripps-Howard prides itself most highly: ousted a probate judge for "gross immorality, moral turpitude and misconduct in office...
Exempt from this may be some commodities (perhaps wheat and corn), some manufactured goods and a variety of miscellaneous products (flour, cement) which have foreign competition. The actual increase to the roads might be nearer 6% as measured by gross freight revenues. And the Commission moves slowly; Depression continues; many months must pass before any increase can be translated to earnings. Hence a nervous psychology has developed in the minds of investors toward rail bonds. Part of this psychology has been due to misunderstanding of newspaper headlines saying that many rail bonds may soon be "illegal...
With tears in their eyes the proprietors of French gambling casinos have been begging the Government to reduce their taxes, which sometimes run as high as 65% of the gross. The season had been ruinous. In 1930 the seven biggest casinos reported a deficit of 21% in their takings compared with the year before. This year's deficit, wailed the managers, will be over 50%. To illustrate the parlous state of affairs the managers pointed to Nicholas Zographos, "Nicky the Greek." greatest gambler in Europe. M. Zographos is head of the Greek gambling syndicate which operates the casinos...