Word: grossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than a subject for speeches and learned essays. It is no longer a regional or even a national problem, but is rather international in its importance. The impact of the war, with its struggle between ideologies diametrically opposed with regard to race, makes racial discrimination in America a gross paradox. And more than this is the cold fact that we must make full use of our manpower if we are to meet fully the requirements...
...Navy skimmed off the cream, the ERC has never been particularly benevolent toward its members. Within the past three weeks, it has outdone itself in making things uncomfortable for men in the Reserve Corps, coming out with four official statements, three of which have directly contradicted one another. This gross inefficiency has resulted in more than the expected amount of confusion, and has played havoc with the farsighted plans of colleges and students...
Shipping is Japan's first vulnerability, but the weakness is so far only potential. The Japanese merchant marine on Dec. 7, 1941 amounted to about 6,000,000 gross tons. Since then the Allies have sunk 170 Japanese bottoms, probably sunk 18, damaged 80. Altogether about 1,250,000 tons have been destroyed. But these sinkings have been largely offset by Jap seizures, requisitions and purchases-such as the huge coastwise fleets of British firms in China, Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Butterfield & Swire. Old ships which have had to be broken up have probably been at least partly replaced...
...Rubinstein brings music of rich feeling combined with as much all-round mastery of the piano as any man can show. And it brings him a steady income of over $100,000 a year. He is also one of the recording industry's biggest sellers, whose discs annually gross over $500,000. His Tchaikovsky Concerto (Victor) started a national furor a year ago when Bandleader Freddie Martin heard it and made a popular arrangement that was worn ragged in juke boxes from coast to coast. Rubinstein's proper version, riding the crest with Martin's adaptation, shortly...
...some of Hollywood's biggest successes: Dawn Patrol (first big flying film), Scar face (which started the gangster picture cycle), Sergeant York. First married to Athole Shearer (Norma's sister), Howard Hawks was divorced by her in 1940, and last year married a young scenario writer, Nancy Gross, lives with her on a new 100-acre ranch in the hills west of Los Angeles...