Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lloyd Easterling, an office supplies dealer, and they began making Boot-sters as a sideline. Soon it became their main line. From $75,000 in the first nine months, sales streaked to $250,000 last year. Now Boot-ster has added plastic cowboy cuffs, lariats and spurs, expects to gross $1,000,000 this year...
Disgruntled Client. The most embarrassing revelation of the investigation stemmed from the testimony of a chunky, grey-haired Milwaukee manufacturer named Albert Joseph Gross. The witness was a disgruntled former client of Five-Percenter James V. Hunt, who had boasted of his friendship with Vaughan. Back in 1945, Witness Gross was making deep freezers. He was asked if he had ever shipped any to Washington. He had. Wisconsin's G.O.P. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy asked him who had gotten them...
...Should I answer that?" Gross asked incredulously. McCarthy said yes. The answer: "Well, Mr. Harry Vaughan." Had Vaughan paid for it? Gross testified that the freezer-and more sent to other Government officials-had been paid for (price: seven for $2,625) by Albert Verley & Co. of Chicago, a perfume firm...
...Before Gross could name the other officials to whom the freezers had been shipped, the committee cut him off-it wanted to be certain before taking more public testimony. But that did not stop newspapers from printing some names: among them those of Mrs. Harry Truman and Chief Justice Fred Vinson...
...opposite postwar policies of Montgomery Ward and U.S. Gypsum. At Ward's, Avery has pulled in his horns and refused to expand, piling up cash for the depression he thinks is coming. At Gypsum, Keady had poured $53,800,000 into expansion and modernization, doubled Gypsum's gross to $148,555,269 since he took over, more than tripled...