Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heard rumors about these vessels, but only that morning (last Nov. 7) did he realize "the full significance and amplitude of what had been prepared." He appreciated the gesture, but "in its total implications it is an insult to me and to the Party. It is a gross contradiction of the spirit of the times and a serious blunder by members of a revolutionary party...
Those two sums, combined, are probably far bigger than his 1943 profits will be. Last year his gross business was only about $500,000 under this year's estimated $34,000,000; his net income...
...film companies' annual gross in Britain now runs to around $50,000,000-less than 10% of their gross at home, but perhaps 20 times what British films have ever made in a year in the U.S. Besides that, British earnings in the U.S. are taxed much more heavily than the U.S. companies' gross in Britain. J. Arthur's passion is to exact something nearer...
...American tank loses its formation and, in subsequent wanderings across the Saharan wastes, picks up an English medical officer, a Fighting Frenchman, a Negro veteran of at least a dozen wars and insurrections, an Italian soldier, a German officer, and others too numerous to mention, including, eventually about a gross of assorted Nazi prisoners. The process obviously involves plenty of blood and thunder, and the picture works itself up to a well-planned climax, leaving everyone satisfied...
...first batch of bean soup seven weeks later. The Navy piled on orders. It put a generous supply aboard its fighting ships and stockpiled it all over the world. In one Pacific sea fight 118 warship fires were reportedly snuffed out by foam. And Foam's gross fizzed up from less than $500,000 into $6.000,000 this year...