Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blondes), threw up her hands at the wild younger generation, came out for more parental discipline-"you ought to smack him in the puss." She considered bobby-soxers inferior to flappers. "The flappers washed their underwear," said she. "They were neat, sexy, appealing and clean. The bobby-soxers are gross . . . they are not alluring...
John Carradine sounded more & more like his late friend John Barrymore. The gaunt, long-maned Shakespearian was trying to get out of paying alimony to his ex-wife-20% of his gross income. He was getting desperate, he cried in a Los Angeles court, he had even attempted suicide. Asked how, he reported: "Twelve double Scotches." The judge ordered him to go right on paying, and also to pay $8,207.36 in back alimony or go to jail...
...newsmen, Lockheed president Bob Gross proudly displayed the 92-ton Constitution, biggest plane ever built for the U.S. Navy. The Constitution will be slightly slower (300 miles an hour) than its sister ship, the Constellation. But it will carry 180 passengers on two spacious decks connected by spiral stairways, will have a 6,000-mile range (v. a maximum of 67 passengers and 3,000 miles for the Constellation...
...further financing, was impressed with Zeckendorf's hard-headed operating plans. The ten-story hotel, office, and professional buildings are expected to be self-sustaining. The rest of Bill's world of tomorrow will be let out at a basic moderate rent plus varying percentages of gross sales (e.g., 1% for food stores, 15% for millinery shops...
...area calculated to have the buying power of a city the size of Atlanta, Zeckendorf believes gross sales might reach $125 million annually, netting $6.5 million rent. After taxes, interest, and overhead are paid, there will still be a tidy balance of about $1.5 million...