Word: grossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moines, Robert Butterworth was arrested by police and given a routine shakedown, which revealed that he was harboring on his person: 20 paint brushes, 60 pens and pencils, 17 combs, 50 ft. of rope, a quart of sauerkraut, 5 Ib. of sugar, 3 Ib. of wieners, a gross of used toothpicks, four flashlights, a hammer, six knives, a grindstone, a tube of shaving cream and four putty knives. He was charged with "maintaining a fire hazard." Only Yesterday. In Toledo, Ore., a merchant discovered that he had accepted a bad check drawn on the Lincoln County Bank, which used...
...Nate Schriber's risks usually pay off. In 1943 Schriber Decorating Co. grossed $1,803,311. This year's gross is running about the same. Nate is the biggest painting contractor in both Washington, D.C. and the Denver area. But he lives simply, keeps business dealings direct: it took him 20 minutes to settle all his last year's Government renegotiation problems. "He gets his labor in the vicinity of the job, always hires union men, pays the union scale without a yammer. Real secret of Nate's success: no job is too big, none too small...
Many a House member agreed. But for Pouliot to say it out loud was a gross breach of Parliamentary rules. Quick to point out the breach was Defense Minister James Layton Ralston, himself a favorite target of Pouliot's interminable tirades. The Deputy Speaker upheld the Minister, ruled that Pouliot must withdraw his words. Pouliot declined. Then he was given the dinner recess to reconsider or be "named" (forced to leave the Chamber...
This meant that despite a phenomenal 90% passenger load, record air express cargoes, and higher gross incomes, the industry was barely hedgehopping over the financial woods. TWA crash-landed in the red, losing $92,420 ($357,352 profit last year). Pennsylvania-Central and Western Air Lines lost $77,682 and $17,565 respectively. American, its net down 47%, still cleared the trees by $597,796. Well-managed United fared best, settling down to a $1,110,083 profit-almost as good...
Ausnit, Johnny Loos, Golden, and Holcombe, with Lieutenant-Commander Kear of the R. N. Z. Navy and the Harvard Law School at scrum-half, make up the remainder of the backfield. Among the forwards, the position will be the same as last week, with Kennedy, Garfield, and Gross in the front line, Jessop and Hodge as locks, Weisberg as center, and Wilson and Worthington in the left and-right outside-forward position respectively...