Word: grossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trying. Everybody damns the Government's secret police for "excesses and almost all agree that it is presently unpopular with most of the people," he wrote, and "there is no question at all but that they [the Communists] carry the most weight in the Government." But it was "gross oversimplification" to call Poland either a police state or a Communist state. Said Ingersoll mysteriously: Poland's Government is a "new kind of state...
...week's end, U.S. Embassy observers said that the Poles regarded their election with "cynicism, hopelessness, fear and abject submission." But Observer Ingersoll thus wound up his mission to Warsaw: "There was what we would call gross unfairness in the campaign [but] alleged outright fraud in the counting is not substantiated . . . the way to get them to hold Marquis of Queensbury elections here is to applaud them for what they are doing so courageously and well. . . . And if this be lecturing my countrymen, let them make the most...
...until too late. Moreover, the film had not yet been distributed nationally. Selznick murmured that there might be some revisions. But an extended ban by the Catholic Church would mean plenty of trouble. Duel, already expensively delayed, could not be held up and revised if it was to gross the $20,000,000 that Selznick expected...
While Eugene was at the wheel, the company's gross had risen from $125,000 a year to $8,000,000. In the last year, Eugene has taken things easy. He has let Ed, president since 1937, take over completely the operation of Moran's 31 tugs. It also has eight under charter, and operates twelve 194-ft. ocean-going tugs for the Government. It has contracts to dock most of the big liners, including the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth...
...Golden Horseshoe brackets the harvest reaches bumper proportions. For the taxpayer with $100,000 of gross income, HRI will prove a net income boost of over twenty-five percent. The fortunate few who earn a half million every year will reap savings of more than seventy percent of current net income. The relative gain at the $500,000 level reaches almost thirty times the "relief" afforded the average laborer, even though the tax cut under the proposed bill falls from twenty percent to ten and a half percent for income in excess...