Word: grossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...color, every bluff of gargantuan settings, every cliche of plot and dialogue in DeMille's too familiar repertoire. "Reap the Wild Wind" lacks even the barest spark of originality; it is slow, sticky and indescribably dull. Its possibilities as melodrama are almost completely submerged in an orgy of gross spectacle...
Leon Henderson made it clear that he did not consider the March price structure ideal. He promised that he would realign prices at different selling levels when and as "gross inequities" showed up. Some were so immediately obvious that supplementary OPA orders were already being readied.* But OPA made its over-all ceiling policy clear: retail prices are not to be changed; the changes will come at the wholesale or manufacturing level. If necessary, subsidies will be used, as they have been in Britain (to the tune of ?125,000,000 a year) and in Canada. "But the ceiling," said...
Looy, dot Dope was the nickname, borrowed from Milt Gross, which Lewis Brereton's Army chums pinned on him years ago. It was a mark of affection and respect. Brereton, from the start of his Army career, was dopey like a tiger...
...sooner was the committee indictment out than the Navy chuffed up with its own report. "Direct and sole" cause of the fire, a Navy Court of Inquiry solemnly ruled, was "gross carelessness and utter violation of rules of common sense" by Robins Dry Dock employes. Full responsibility, the Navy grumped, belonged there. Recommendation: to sue Robins for damages to the full extent of liability...
...huge, bright pink Purp blanks, a manufacturer can list all his material needs for all purposes for the coming quarter, get priorities clearance on the whole smear at once. If his needs change during the quarter, he can fill out similar yellow blanks for "interim assistance." Small firms (gross business under $100,000 a year) can use a simplified form...