Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than 60% of U.S. production comes from small business (annual gross sales under $5 million). Nearly 80% of industrial labor is employed in small plants (with less than 1,000 on their payrolls). Last week an executive of one such concern went into print with the charge that this vital segment of the U.S. industrial economy was being squeezed to death. In an article in The Atlantic Monthly, building-insulation maker Robert E. Outman said...
...Louis Woman (book by Arna Bontemps & the late Countee Cullen; music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by Johnny Mercer; produced by Edward Gross) shows something more than musicomedy's aspirations but something less than its appeal. An all-Negro period yarn of the '90s, it pins its faith almost entirely on its story and its music. But the story is too trite and trumped-up to deserve such prominent treatment. The music, which therefore needs to be specially engaging, is no more than agreeable...
Major General Charles P. Gross, chairman of New York City's Board of Transportation, preferred to be literal up to a point. "New York is by all odds the dirtiest city in the world," he declared. "You will find . . . more dirt than there is in Moscow, Copenhagen, Paris and Brussels combined...
...these solid business reasons, which have little to do with literature, book clubs are now booming as never before. New ones are being founded on shoestrings no stronger than Braziller's. This year, the 25 U.S. book clubs will sell over 75,000,000 books and gross $100,000,000, one-sixth of all U.S. book sales. The clubs' rapid spread is due primarily to the simple fact that book clubs are the best means yet found to reduce publishing risks to a minimum...
...legitimate theatre in the Shubert chain until April, 1942, the Majestic now finds itself cleaning up on re-issues, which it exhibits at first-run admission prices from whose gross producer royalties don't have to be deducted. In fact, the Majestic, which embarked on its re-issue policy only on a temporary basis, is now seriously considering continuing the practice when first-run pictures are again available...