Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About 21% of sprawling Cities Service Co.'s $241,000,000 annual gross revenue is derived not from oil operations but from selling electricity in 20 States from Connecticut to Washington. Because of its power & light subsidiaries, Cities Service falls under SEC jurisdiction via Section II of the Public Utility Holding Company Act, variously described as the "death," "health" or "life sentence" (TIME, Oct. 24), requiring utilities to reorganize into geographically integrated systems...
...Biggest gross movie earnings on record are The Singing Fool ($5,250,000), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ($4,500,000), Ben Hur ($4,000,000). Last week it became apparent that Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with U.S. receipts so far of nearly $4,000,000, British receipts estimated at $1,250,000, will presently set a new record of about...
Oscar Wilde (by Leslie & Sewell Stokes; produced by Norman Marshall). The most lurid of modern scandals, the story of Oscar Wilde has been reverberating between the lines of memoirs and biographies for 40 years. To picture the gross yet elegant, affected yet honest, repellent yet fascinating figure who plunged from dazzling fame to indelible disgrace, is to tackle a subject even more difficult than it is dramatic. Leslie & Sewell Stokes have treated the story in the only possible right way: they have told the plain, unvarnished truth...
...Howe are ya Phelan today, pretty Gross?" "No nifty. I got a Highmark on my exam and look at the weather. Not a MacLeod in the sky . . . . though Sommers gone it's a regular May Daye, and I Lovett...
...paid to vary monthly by prorating among all certified pensioners the proceeds 20% :"transaction tax" (levied on every exchange of money for goods services.) The pensioners would be required to spend all their pension money each month before receiving more. Last week Dr. Townsend was in Hawaii studying a "gross income" tax of similar design instituted there in 1935 to increase the velocity of exchange...