Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...equivalent in fruit and vegetables), rent for $10 per year. There is no labor cost-the butcher more than pays for his time by butchering fees. Power and maintenance costs average about $900 per year. Depreciation at $500 per year is a liberal estimate. Locker rents give a gross income of $5,000. Net result is operating profit of $3,500 per year: enough to amortize entire investment in less than ten years...
...real "take" comes from lowly Los Angeles punters. In its first season, Santa Anita got back its whole original investment. Last season was even more profitable. Its "handle" (i. e., total of all bets made through its pari-mutuel windows) was $25,250,000. The track's gross income from admission fees and 5% of bets was $3,000,000. Currently Santa Anita is planning to up its total of purses and stakes for next winter's racing to $800,000, hopes the California Horse Racing Board will not permit another track near Los Angeles...
...Hempstead, N. Y., Burglar Emil Gross heard a noise, leaped into a bed, yanked the covers over his head, was caught by police snoring ostentatiously between Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Dayton, whom he had intended...
...nothing to do with politics, is not popular with politicians and lives apart from it all in their chaste colonial house in Topeka, quietly collecting American antiques. For all his animal energy and physical charm, his nerves at times go haywire and he is not infrequently guilty of the gross political sin of tactlessness. To those who do not like him he is an egotist, unable to play second fiddle to anyone else, tied to Governor Landon only by their mutual self-interest. To his admirers he is a fine fellow, unquestionably loyal, in spite of a hard-shell political...
...first time in the memory of West Coast produce dealers, spring potatoes are moving as far east as Manhattan. Farmers of California's famed Shafter area, which is producing virtually all new Western potatoes at the moment, will gross some $8,000,000 from 9,000 acres- more than the entire California crop from 45,000 acres brought last year...