Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compliments to the TIME correspondent who wrote the article on P.O.W. camps (March 19). It is the first article on this subject that I've read that hasn't been filled with gross exaggerations, lies, and prejudice. I've been with a P.O.W. stockade for several months, and I know...
...weekly gross on Lucasta ($21,000) has hardly varied a quarter a week since the play hit Broadway, and Artkino wants him to bring the show to Moscow - an offer which he plans to ac cept as soon as the New York audiences begin to fall off. At the same time he is enjoying too much freedom and making too much money as a partner in King Bros. Productions, an independent unit with Monogram, to have to feel that his position, for the time being, is im provable. "We are making A stories on a C budget," he explains...
...scripts for the brothers, whose respect for his literacy is reverent; and he doesn't even have to do that for Monogram, which merely distributes for him. It is a very pretty pitch indeed, as Yordan will explain: "In the small-picture field there is a fixed gross, that is, you can almost tell how much you're going to make to a penny. I plan to use it as an experimental theater...
Unlike Nevada's mines, which have paid a "bullion tax" on net proceeds since 1864, gambling has never been taxed (except for a license). But this spring legislators wrote a bill calling for a 10% income tax on gambling's gross profits. The proposal stirred up as much argument as a counterfeit bill at a faro table...
...John Bracken's gross exaggeration was quickly snatched up and re-exaggerated. The Germans used it ... and it was spread among our friends as well as among our enemies. The U.S. Senate was told that between 15,000 and 18,000 Canadian troops had thrown their rifles overboard. The damage was irreparable. We are doing what we can to offset it by repeating the denial and even releasing particulars of the one poor offender's court-martial and sentence, * but we cannot hope that this will counteract the further wanton damage done to our country...