Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to figures released last week, gross box-office receipts for the cinema industry in 1936 were a billion dollars, $250,000,000 more than last year. Weekly theatre attendance was 81,000,000-compared to 71,000,000 in 1935, 54,000,000 in 1933. Main reasons for the industry's gain were undoubtedly increased prosperity and better pictures. A contributing reason was undoubtedly "Bank Night"-currently a weekly fiesta at 5,000 of the 15,000 active U. S. cinema theatres...
...magnitude, showed him to belong to the decade, perhaps to the century, not just to one more year. Moreover, political landslides however great are not compassed in the U. S. by just one personality and to re-elect Franklin Roosevelt because the U. S. electorate did would be a gross injustice to his prophet and political teammate, James Aloysius Farley...
Although growing rapidly, Mutual Broadcasting System still has a long way to go to match the older chains if it wants to. Without all of the new station alignments reflecting in its income, M. B. S. reported gross program billings of $1,794,000 for the first eleven months of 1936 as compared with $1,117,000 for the same period last year, a 60% increase. Columbia's program revenues for the same period were $20,788,000, comparing with $15,751,000, a 32% increase. N. B. C. reported an eleven-month figure...
...description of "the most tragic human cantonment in Europe," are his reminiscences of a great syndicalist convention he attended in Zaragoza before the war, where die-hard syndicalists passed a resolution that "if anyone, male or female, chanced to rouse the sexual feelings of another, it amounted to a gross and palpable interference with the freedom and happiness of that other, unless the guilty person was prepared to relieve the feelings he or she had produced." Since they did not believe in dictatorial control by the state, the syndicalists could only recommend as punishment that the guilty party be sent...
Divorced. J. D. Wooster Lambert, rich St. Louis sportsman & aircraft manufacturer, onetime secretary & treasurer of Lambert Pharmacal Co. (Listerine); by Mrs. Emily Milliken Lambert; in St. Louis. Grounds: mental cruelty. She was awarded $1,600,000 gross alimony, sole custody of Sons J. D. Wooster Jr., 10, and Jarvis Winn...