Word: grosse
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reason, food-importing Britain well knew, was that dry cargo coming into United Kingdom ports had been cut from 55 million to 26 million tons a year. Loss of ships (11,643,000 gross tons between September 1939 and January 1944) and the demands of war manufacturing were the main reasons. In five years, Britain's arsenals had produced 35 million machine and submachine guns, each far more complex than the rifles of earlier wars. Aircraft factories, which built only 41 heavy bombers in 1940, the year of the Battle of Britain, were building them at the rate...
...would never do a column, because she hates gossip and abhors café society ("The only society I recognize is that of intellect and talent"). Only because "people needed to laugh more" did she yield in 1941 when Paul Winkler of Press Alliance syndicate offered her 40% of the gross proceeds if she would try her hand at columning...
...every two weeks: $40,077. Londonderry could well afford it. The powder which streamlines home ice-cream making is now on the shelves of stores throughout the U.S. The company, now employing 75 people, has expanded from a single dingy room into almost an entire fluorescent-lighted floor. Its gross promises to be $877,000 this year...
...central Washington faced disaster. Ideal weather in the vast, irrigated Wenatchee, Yakima and Upper Columbia River valleys had brought them their fifth biggest apple crop. With a minimum ceiling for growers ($2.75 a box as against the 1939 top of $1.25), this whopping crop would net them their biggest gross in history...
...Before the killing frosts came, most U.S. farmers had their rich harvests safely tucked into the warm barns-perhaps the greatest harvest on record, refuting the famine worrywarts of last spring. Farm gross income will be over $20 billion...