Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Powel Crosley Jr., 58, manufacturer of Crosley radios, iceboxes and midget automobiles, president of the Cincinnati Reds; by Marianna Wallingford Crosley, 32; after one year, 9 months of marriage; in Cincinnati. Grounds: gross neglect...
...years economists talked mainly in terms of the net national income (total of all income of individuals and corporations). But in 1942 the Department of Commerce ran a parallel new figure showing the "gross national product." This was naturally far higher; it included not only the national income but the "unjustified figures," such as depreciation reserves. In fact, it measures the value of U.S. production instead of only payments made to produce it. Said Brookings: "A distorted picture of national expansion has been built up in the minds of the public. One not infrequently reads that the national income...
Against Discipline. Dr. Bowman began his reply by stating that Dr. Link had expressed "more pointedly perhaps than any recent writer, the gross misconception in the public mind regarding psychiatry. ..." The Link discussion, according to Dr. Bowman, contained two plain errors: 1) except for the phrase " 'socalled shell-shock' . . . neither the American Army nor Navy uses the term, and never did"; 2) Dr. Link thinks the use of psychiatry in forward battle areas is novel when "even in the last war the whole basis of psychiatric treatment in the A.E.F. was exactly this." Continued Dr. Bowman...
...Goldwyn wrath boiled over six weeks ago. He had dickered with San Francisco's McNeil-Naify Co. (100 theaters in California and Nevada), to show Up in Arms (TIME, March 13) on a percentage of the gross basis, which would be highly profitable to Goldwyn. McNeil-Naify offered him a lower flat-rental basis, which would be highly profitable to them...
...result the red-light district's gross earnings have skyrocketed to unheard-of levels and its veteran harlots have grown rich...