Word: grosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is at least as simple as the present method of making alumina from bauxite ore, which is by no means pure when mined. Its gross impurities, such as sand, are removed by crushing, washing, sifting. It is then dissolved in hot caustic soda or "lye," which does not dissolve the subtler impurities. When the hot lye cools in towering tanks, pure aluminum hydroxide separates from it and is ready to be baked and electrolyzed...
Since about a third of Hollywood's prewar gross came from abroad, the picture business feared the war more than most U.S. businesses. The foreign markets have practically vanished, but the fears never materialized. Domestic theater receipts have more than made up the differences, will touch $1,100,000,000 this year - equal to the record made in 1930. Furthermore, Hollywood has little fear of priorities. Its chief raw material - talent - is just as scarce as ever, but no scarcer...
...entitled "A House Divided" has been called to any attention. Since you have included me in the list of those with divided most recently discovered weakness. The loyalties, I feel called upon to explain my own position, and wish also to take the opportunity to point out the gross misstatements of fact with regard to others...
...Teagle, 9,552 gross tons, owned by the Standard Oil Co., flying the British flag, manned by a British crew, bearing north for Iceland with a cargo of bulk...
...Bold Venture, 3,222 gross tons, owned by U.S. Maritime Commission, flying Panamanian flag, lat. 57° N, long. 24° W, bearing north for Reykjavik with general cargo bound for Britain. . . . 11:40 p.m. . . . All well...