Word: grosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia, whose hosiery mills gross $25,000,000 a year, the American Federation of Hosiery Workers stopped wage negotiations with manufacturers, turned its attention instead to asking Washington to speed up production of nylon (now supplying 18% of U.S. hosiery needs), mercerized cotton, rayon, other silk substitutes...
good ($25,000 gross) that he quit his regular job, moved his shop into a 40-by-80 ft. plant, incorporated it as Uniloy Accessories Corp., put 25 men to work...
...Which way are they lying, Frank?' Smith said. 'Head here, legs there, body bent round here.' 'Very awkward,' said Smith." Then Ford looked. "There was no blood or gross mutilation. But the bodies had become part of the debris; they had become one constituent of the many constituents of the mound. They had been crushed and pressed into the decomposed raw material of the five houses...
...statement about the morality of the monks is a gross and wicked exaggeration of facts which are regretted by the monks, themselves, more than by anyone else. It is, of course, quite true that wherever you get a number of men-many of them young-segregated from the rest of the world, the evils spoken of by your correspondent invariably arise. The same thing might be said of many schools and colleges in all countries...
...exaggerated. That is the number who stay away from the cinema each week. Those from five to 85 who do go average 54,275,000 a week. In 1940 those admissions added up to $700,000,000 cash-far short of the billion-dollar-a-year box-office gross claimed by the Hays office...