Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since 1941, the U-boat fleet had sunk no less than 440 U.S. ships, of 2,740,000 gross tons; mines, surface ships, aircraft and miscellaneous enemy action boosted the toll to 538 ships (3,310,000 gross tons or almost 5,000,000 deadweight tons). U.S. merchant seamen killed or missing totaled 5,579. To the British Empire, the cost was far greater: 2,570 ships, of 11,380,000 gross tons; 30,000 mariners dead or missing. For all the Allies and the few neutrals, the monstrous total stood: 4,770 ships, 21,140,000 gross tons:-equal...
Advertiser Ramsey does not give radio all the credit for P & G's soaring gross sales (from $116,593,142 in 1934 to $311,496,273 in 1944), but his whopping ($22 million) radio outlay shows what P & G thinks of radio as a salesman...
...Gallagher told stockholders that profits for the first six months of 1945 might run higher than the $71 million ($2.60 a share) earned in the same period last year.' And General Electric Co.'s President Charles Edward Wilson has repeatedly said that G.E.'s postwar annual gross sales may hit $1 billion, more than three times its prewar average...
...little creatures, if they chanced to light on the least filament or string, or other particles, were entangled therein, extending their body in a long round and endeavoring to disentangle their tail. . . . I have seen several thousands of these poor little creatures, within the space of a grain of gross sand, lie fast clustered together in a few filaments...
...culture and almost as uncontemporary with them as Neanderthal man), the Emperor Hirohito was Japan. In him was embodied the total enemy. He was the Japanese national mind with all its paradoxes-reeking savagery and sensitivity to beauty, frantic fanaticism and patient obedience to authority, brittle rituals and gross vices, habitual discipline and berserk outbursts, obsession with its divine mission and sudden obsession with worldly power...