Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the year which ended last week, the Saturday Evening Post carried 1,880,932 lines of advertising which, at $8,000 a page, earned a gross advertising revenue of $26,575,599. That was bigger money than any other magazine in the world took in in 1937 and is a record surpassed only by the Post itself. At the same time the Post's weekly circulation, tirelessly solicited by 50,000 boy salesmen and 2,025 telephone & field canvassers throughout the U. S., was in excess of 3,000,000- 157,456,000 for the year-which...
Divorced. John Daniel Miller Hamilton, Republican National Chairman, by Laura Hall Hamilton; in Topeka, Kans. Charges: "Gross neglect of duty, abandonment for more than a year...
...results were far-reaching. First Morgan stopped a particularly gross theft of Seneca lands, when shysters, with New York Senate connivance, rum and $200,000 in bribes, tried to defraud the Indians by paying $1.67 an acre for land worth $16. Then he published his classic study that gave for the first time "the real structure and principles of the League of the Iroquois." The book launched him on a career that made him ''the father of American anthropology" and "the greatest sociologist of the last century...
...enforce its minimum, B. C. C. signs up producers to a code whereby each agrees to pay 1? per ton excise tax. Any producer who refuses to sign the code must pay a prohibitive tax of 19½% on his gross sales. So far 6,108 of the 6,315 U. S. bituminous mines have signed up, for coal producers, desperate after their many lean years, are nearly unanimous in favor of price fixing...
...manufacturing gross of the industry was about $83,000,000-compared to $153,000,000 for office equipment, $328,000,000 for refrigerators. $2,448,925,000 for automobiles & trucks...