Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From his birth Gerd von Rundstedt was destined for the army. Before he tired of playing with lead soldiers, under his father's approving eye, he found himself a freshman in the cadet school at Oranienstein. There and at Gross-Lichterfelde, the wiry, chilly stripling learned the code of selfless devotion to duty and class. At 17, Rundstedt became a lieutenant...
...world's biggest ice manufacturer, City Ice & Fuel Co. of Chicago, last week reported that its share in this record business has brought it a record gross-$24 million (including income from two breweries, fuel and refrigerator sales) for the first half of 1944. (In all of 1940 City Ice grossed $25.7 million.) On Sept. 1 City Ice will retire all its preferred stock: $12 million worth, paying accrued dividends of $1.62½ a share. But record business also has brought fantastic demands. Frantic calls from iceless areas have required it to ship from California to Texas, from Florida...
...commercial is that it will haunt the prospective buyer more than the nonsinging commercial. Kent and Johnson most notably haunted the radio public in the fall of 1939 with a little number which undoubtedly has had something to do with Pepsi-Cola's $14,000,000 increase in gross sales since then...
...Weather. From the time the Walls got their FSA loan they have been making money. Their gross income in 1941 was $2,500. Living expenses for the year were held to $500. The rest of the income went back into the farm, and $359 was paid to FSA. War and the weather swelled the Walls' income. Good weather lifted the corn yield in 1942 to an average of 90 bu. an acre (during the drought year the yield was twelve bu. - which is no crop at all). The war demand for food pushed up prices for hogs, eggs...
...rolling stock, better signals and improvements to Santa Fe's 13,500 miles of track. Both became diesel enthusiasts; the Santa Fe owns more diesels than any other railroad. With the new equipment, Santa Fe has been able to keep pace with the traffic boom that shot gross revenue from $160 million in 1939 to $471 million last year...