Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automobiles and cases of whiskey was active with no restrictions on short-selling or sharp practice. A winner of a case of bourbon was Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank. In the golf tournament Jess Sweetser, onetime British amateur champion and now of Shields & Co., won low gross with a 73. Only tip-top Manhattan bondmen enjoy the Sleepy Hollow jamboree but the. Bond Club's annual publication - the " Bawl Street Journal-is sold in every important financial city in the land and is even ordered from Europe, China, Brazil. Written largely by bankers, brokers and their employes...
Darrow Criticism: Small producers were not allowed to share in making the code. Large producers make small exhibitors agree to take short films and newsreels in order to get the feature pictures from which most profits are made. Large producers demand a big share of small exhibitors' gross receipts, sometimes 35% for popular pictures, and dictate the days on which pictures shall be shown. The code gives distributors the right to fix admission prices. Many independent theatres cannot get popular pictures until their competitors have largely exhausted such pictures' drawing powers...
...Western Union vice president dismissed as gross exaggerations reports that his company had sent out 10,000 telegrams, suggesting protest. But Deputy NRAdministrator Peebles said, he has seen copies of messages sent to customers whose telegraph bills did not exceed $2 per month. The vice president replied: "I cannot account for the indiscretions of subordinates...
...Bardamn is director. American readers, perhaps, will be disappointed when "The Journey," which begins as if to be a French "All Quiet on the Western Front" develops into a sort of "Candido." Throughout the whole book there persists the same strange humor to lighten the continued examinations of subjects gross and primitive that are usually neglected in print. In many places M. Destouches has seized upon psychological phases of post-war French attitudes with great skill, capitalizing the fact that he is working with new material, but to the English reading public the conviction and justification of the book falter...
...Water was carted for miles for livestock. Towns rationed their water supplies. In Nebraska the State University agronomist gloomily predicted that many fields would not yield over 5 bu. of wheat per acre (normal average. 15 to 20 bu.). In Minnesota they mocked Washington's crop predictions as gross overestimates. Farmers planting corn raised clouds of dust like columns of marching troops. Then came the wind, great gusty blasts out of the Northwest. It lifted the dust from the parched fields and swirled it across the land. It tore the powdery soil from the roots of the wheat...