Word: grossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gross Errors." "The catastrophe in White Russia was the result not only of the superiority of the Russian forces but of gross errors of German strategy. Seven or eight days before the beginning of the Russian offensive the commander of the Group of Armies, Field Marshal Ernst Busch, arrived at my headquarters and heard my report regarding the disadvantage of my overextended position and my request for permission to withdraw in order to shorten the line...
...bushels an acre, the sturdy combine averaged five acres an hour. At that rate Ruthenbeck cheerfully figured he could cut 5,000 acres during the summer-long northward trek to his Minnesota home. At an average charge of $2 to $3 an acre, Ruthenbeck's gross will be a fat $10,000 to $15,000 for the four-month season. The combine, delivered at Enid, cost only...
Burden of the Vanquished. Italians who understood the harsh terms of the armistice cried aloud. They complained that anti-Fascist Italians were being done a gross injustice. They declared (with some reason) that the terms had been drafted at Casablanca, when no one foresaw Italy's quick collapse. They wanted Italy to have the full status of a willing cobelligerent and an ally against the Germans. Loudest of the outcries came from the Socialist Avanti's Editor Pietro Nenni. Wrote he: "We in Italy are finding how superficial, summary and empirical are Allied ideas of Europe...
...court seeking to invalidate his New Jersey invalidation of her earlier Nevada divorce (TIME, May 22). She gave him 30 days in which to answer her new double-barreled charge: Cromwell's New Jersey court claim that she perpetrated a fraud on the Nevada court was "gross fraud" on his part...
...past, the most expensive veterans' drives have come at least a decade after peace. By 1893 men who had fought for the Union, and a good many who had not, were getting 35% of the nation's gross income in money and services; only 26 years after they were handed $60, World War I veterans had cost more than 15 billion dollars...