Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when Adolph Ochs bought it] the New York Times' daily circulation, which in 1883 was 70,000, had dropped to 9,000. The regular employes numbered 300, and the annual gross income was $500,000. At the present time the New York Times has an average daily circulation of 370,000 and 625,000 on Sundays, has over 3,000 regular employes, and an annual gross income...
...Northern Pacific, said last week. They carry crops, ores and lumber. For the nation there have been ten weeks this year when more than a million cars were loaded. In only one week, that of Jan. 2 were there less than 900,000. This reflects lively interchange of commodities. Gross railroad earnings, January through June, were...
Rail earnings of the half year, just now consolidated for the entire country, were $494,866,776 derived from gross revenues of $3,038,560,861. Some part of these earnings will go to the Government under the recapture provision of the Transportation Act of 1920. This provides that one half of all a railroad's excess net operating income go into the General Railroad Contingent Fund to help impoverished rivals. Income becomes excess when it goes over 5¾% of the road's property valuation. What that valuation should be based upon is in dispute. The Government...
...rebuked with measured scorn and thoroughly dressed down by the Speaker, for "the gross indignity offered to Parliament and the vile discourtesy done to the House of Lords" (TIME, July 12), by Laborite M. P.'s who cat-called and booed among themselves while a message from the King was read...
...playthings for South American debutantes, and cars like the huge grey road lizards in which Il Duce speeds from camp to campagna. The Fiat company's ten factories make also tractors, forgings, castings, Diesel engines, electricity; employ 32,000 men; sold 40,000 cars last year; reached gross sales of $50,000,000 and net profits of almost $9,000,000. Last week in Manhattan a syndicate headed by J. P. Morgan & Co. sold $10,000,000 gold debenture 7% Fiat bonds, a syndicate that also included the First National Bank, National City Co., Guaranty...