Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steelmaking centres. It lies between the richest grainland of North America and the richest consumer population on any seaboard in the world. The tonnage of freight shipped and received at lake ports in 1929 surpassed that of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific ports of the U. S. combined. The gross tonnage of ships employed on the Great Lakes in 1929 was greater than that of the merchant fleet of Holland and nearly equaled the French merchant marine. The backbone of this trade is ore. Last week, because Steel's big winter had depleted supplies of ore at Lake Erie...
...House was a complete sell-out for both shows . . . gross hitting approximately $2,750 ... an all-time high. Audience included the Secretary of the Public Morality Council and members of the London County Council [aldermen] with the stripper proving the most-dressed representative of her clan ever seen. . . . "C. B. Cochrane opened his new Trocadero cabaret revue the same night. Entitled 'Eve in the Park,' show features a nude girl enclosed in a huge glass shower-bath, stepping out and dressing from skin to outer garments. Artistic and alluring, the twist went over nicely...
...Green as a resident by Surrogate Owen's ruling, the U. S. Supreme Court will be the court to settle once & for all the question of domicile for tax billing purposes. The tax schedule which Texas' Attorney General William McCraw filed with the Supreme Court placed the gross value of Colonel Green's estate at $44,384,500. This may be as much as $50,000,000 short of the final figure, for as yet nobody knows exactly how much Hetty Green's big cub did leave. According to Texas arithmetic, the Federal Government will collect...
Zion's usually profitable building industry, arrived in time for the opening Passion Play, now performed by 300 pious members of the Community. He was sure that this year the show would gross $15,000. Zion Passion Players pray to God before every rehearsal, every performance. Their prayers have not always prevented mishaps. Chief worry is whether the wires will hold fast in the smash climax of the Play's 27 scenes, the Ascension of Christ, whose role is played by a 24-year-old office-supplies salesman named Le Roy John Peacy. Once a wire broke...
...dinner in Chicago had Senators Duffy and Lewis and the same priced dinner in Manhattan had Herbert Bayard Swope. No less than 20 reliable Senators and over 30 Congressmen spoke hither & yon. How much all these dinners netted, Democratic statisticians had not yet calculated, but the gross take of the dinner-of-dinners at Washington was a matter of simple arithmetic: 1,300 dinners times $100 a plate equaled...