Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Black charged that the same kind of seekers of special privilege who had organized the Liberty League were behind "fake farm unions, sentinels of the republic, protectors of liberty, guardians of the Constitution, self-defense leagues." Picking out the Chicago Tribune for special mention, he declared that, "a gross and malicious campaign of misrepresentation" had been launched against his Committee...
...railroad problem during Depression and thus far in Recovery has been to coax enough net operating income out of greatly diminished gross receipts to cover almost inflexible fixed charges on a funded debt which in December 1934 stood at $10,560,000,000. In 1929 the railroads had gross receipts of some $7,000,000,000. That income has shrunk by nearly $3,000,000,000. If the roads were spending as much money on operations as they spent in 1929, receiverships would now be almost universal. They have, however, made extraordinary reductions in operating expenses. In 1934 maintenance charges...
From 1874 through 1898 the Pennsylvania did not do much more than consolidate the structure whose foundation President Thomson had laid, although in this second period many new lines were acquired. By 1898, however, gross revenue (east of Pittsburgh and Erie) had risen to only $65,000,000, although the company was carrying 84,220,000 tons of freight and some 36,000,000 passengers...
...venture was scarcely expected to rival the success of the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe which, before its current tour is over, may well gross $1,000,000 (TIME, Oct. 21). But the fact that Martha Graham was courageous and confident enough to want to face audiences of plain people, unbiased by the adoring intellectuals who hail her as a priestess, gave a fresh importance to the dance she represents...
...gross exaggeration is the current business credo, reiterated at a thousand banquet tables, that fear of Administration policies has held up capital expansion. With the possible exception of utilities, any U. S. industry would expand if there were discernible markets for additional products...