Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kaname Nakamura of the Kyoto observatory staff, when his agitation subsided, was able to trace a gross error. A reporter had misread the Japanese picture-word which described the new heavenly body. The symbol for ten, or ju, is approximately that of the mathematical plus sign (+); for 1,000 or sen, approximately that of the plus-or-minus sign (±). The careless reporter had added the upper cross bar. The new "planet" is a planetoid, about 110 not 11,000 miles in diameter. It lies between Mars and Jupiter in the general orbit of the thousand-odd other planetoids (TIME...
Taiwan Electric Power now furnishes 95%, of the island's electricity, operates eight hydro-electric and six steam power plants. Its gross operating revenues last year came to $4,242,000 against 1929'$ $4,005,000-about the same as for a U. S. city of 200,000 population, although Formosa's population is 4,000,000. Its property is valued at $29,000,000. One of the biggest shareholders in the company is the Imperial Japanese Government, which owns 36.7% of the stock and is aggressively developing the island's industries. Hence when last week...
...National Broadcasting Co.'s seven stations (WRC, Washington; WEAF and WJZ, New York; KGO, San Francisco; KOA, Denver; WTAM, Cleveland; WENR, Chicago). His company had, he said, $17,000,000 in unfulfilled broadcasting contracts on hand. It had earned its first "small profit" last year on $20,000,000 gross business. It had leased 27 new studios in Manhattan's Radio City. A revocation of its licenses would ruin its business. Questioned by caustic Representative Frank R. Reid of Illinois, an intervener in the case, about the Delaware case, Mr. Aylesworth said: "I know very little about it. I wouldn...
...followers had been gathered by Prohibition agents with the co-operation of the same agents who dug up the grounds for his tax evasion indictment. Their facts and figures had the sound of Big Business. The Capone beer syndicate, they found, had a daily turnover of $75.000, an annual gross income of $27,000,000, or $270,000,000 for the ten years it has been in operation. The personal Capone fortune was reckoned at $20,000,000, although agents were only able to find direct evidence of a $260,000 maximum annual income on which he failed...
Last week Dominick & Dominick finished a study of corporate earnings, revealed that less than Meth of 1% of all U. S. companies accounted for 40% of the total 1930 corporate earnings, have 45% of total corporate gross assets. Only 3.4% of all U. S. manufacturing companies employ more than 250 workers, only 1.4% employ more than...