Word: grossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shaking with fury, Hopkinson, who is known for his fine war record and constant advocation of a large air force, turned to the Speaker: "I ask your protection, Mr. Speaker, against this gross and lying innuendo...
...have heard morons say that our export is only 10% of our total output of goods and that consequently there is no need to get hot and bothered about that 10%. It is just like saying that the net profit of a firm is only 6% of the gross business done and that there is no use to worry about that. Year in and year out we manage to show a favorable trade balance with the countries with which we do business. That 10% just about represents what...
...which Germany's Paul Ehrlich concocted 30 years ago. Mercury and bismuth compounds are also useful. But all these drugs must be injected regularly over a long period (18 months to two years) and many patients heartily dislike injections and monotonous visits to the doctor. When their gross symptoms disappear, they often abandon treatment forthwith, still harboring the pale lurking spirochetes...
...Cape Fear roads. Some 20% of its freight revenue comes from petroleum; the rest is fertilizer, coal, farm produce, and material for Fort Bragg (20% of non-originated freight). All this, plus $6,000 worth of mail and a $5,000 passenger traffic, gave A. & R. a $150,000 gross, $12,000 net last year...
...show. They invaded Manhattan; their technique worked like a charm. Last week Vernon, president & treasurer, 37, and Gordon, personnel head, 34, rolled out an income statement to turn the average restaurateur green. For fiscal 1940 (July 31) their twelve restaurants yielded $418,000 profits on $5,012,000 gross...