Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...automobile driver arrested for almost running over the President on a Washington street (TIME, Sept. 28) was fined $35. Said he: "A gross injustice has been done me. I have driven for six years and never harmed even a chicken or a rabbit. My record is clean, and I have been humiliated and insulted by the Government, not for any wrong, but because I thought the signal of a kiddish' looking Secret Service man was the prank of a small boy, I missed the President by twenty feet...
...Deutcher Verein has extended an invitation to al persons in the University to join this historic organization. All who are interested in joining are requested to leave their names and addresses with K. Gross '28, at 52 Plympton Street before the meeting tomorrow of the executive committee...
...tournament Among them were famed lawyers and financial figures, a retired rear admiral,* the president of a great insurance company?; they played, each according to his fashion, around the Apawamis course. There were inumerable prizes?for men over 80, for men over 75, putting contests, best net and best gross cards for 18 and 36 holes. But the medal for the famed event?the championship for men over 50, went to Frederick Snare of Garden City who had turned in a score of 156. Piddling old fellows snorted when they heard of this, and spat their bile into the Club...
...present price of steel products, at an average of $50.84 per gross ton, is only 37% over the 13-year pre-War average of $37.11. On the other hand labor costs, which constitute about half of steelmaking costs have risen very greatly since 1913. Common labor, for example, now costs 130% more than before the war. Without economies obtained by using waste products and modernizing plant facilities, most steel companies would now be operating at heavy losses instead of profits...
Feature films made here have been remarkably successful abroad. The cost of the Covered Wagon-about $800,000- has just about been covered by foreign sales; altogether it has grossed $5,000,000. Similar success has attended the Sea Hawk, which cost $700,000, and will gross about $3,000,000, and the Lost World, which also cost about $700,000. The Ten Commandments cost $1,800,000 to make-more than double the cost of any previous film. Despite early predictions of a staggering loss on this picture, it is now believed that foreign sales alone will more than...