Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Down. Thanks to its high operating rate in the first half of 1945, the steel industry made up for its sales slump in the second half. And in steel, as in most other industries, the drop in gross was largely made up by a drop in the tax bill...
...G.I.s who plan to open a nice, greasy little filling station and live happily ever after, the Department of Commerce last week held up a fatherly finger of caution. The Department warned that almost two-thirds of the 242,000 stations n the U.S. before the war grossed less than $10,000 a year, made an average profit of only 6% on gross, including the owner's salary...
...made many a window. With the Deerslayer, Sir Lancelot and Long John Silver, they have hunted, dueled, and sailed the painted spaces where no real harm ever comes to heroes. Wyeth had a high talent for getting the maximum of action into his adventure illustrations with the minimum of gross bloodshed which might offend parents more than boys...
...only two built) on an airdrome near Tokyo are inclined to believe the claim. Notable feature: fuel tanks cover 75% of the A-26's wing span, carry nine tons (3,219 gallons) of gasoline, accounting for some 54% of the plane's gross weight...
...Lockheed is well aware that if its foresight had not been generously mixed with luck, i.e., having the Constellation and P-80 Shooting Star in production at war's end, it would not be sitting on top of the heap now. But Bob Gross sees no reason why it should not stay there. Net profits last year were some $4,500,000, and he expects, barring some calamity, that they may run as high this year from Constellations, P-80 Shooting Stars and planes for the Navy...