Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very ardent and devoted reader of TIME, I believe that a gross injustice has been done to the people of the State of New Mexico because of your undignified and, certainly, unwarranted misnomer of Senator Chavez. May I venture to say, Mr. Editor, that Senator Chavez' ancestors were upon the American continent, that is now the United States of America, prior to the time that your forefathers were here. . . . This reflects no discredit upon you, or anyone else, as there are thousands of loyal American citizens who cannot trace their ancestry to the early Spanish colonists in the Southwest...
Fair's concessions (gross of Perisphere and other Fair shows...
Concessions (8 to 25% cut of gross business of restaurants, amusements...
...show had welcomed 2,500,000 customers by last week. At this rate (one out of every six paid admissions to the Fair), it can expect at least 4,000,000 customers by October 30. At Aquacade rates (40? to 99?; average about 50?) that meant a gross to date of something over $1,500,000 (plus an additional $15,000 a week for plugging some 14 products, from Pepsi-Cola to opera glasses). Billy Rose has an equally remarkable way with costs -about $30,000 a week at the Aquacade-and Billy says he is clearing from the Aquacade...
...source of profit during the war; even though submarines and mines sank 199.975 tons of Dutch shipping, the total merchant tonnage of The Netherlands increased from 1,297,409 to 1.574,000 between 1914 and 1919. In 1915 the Holland-America Line paid 50% in dividends; in 1916, 55%. Gross profits of 17 largest Dutch steamship companies were 32,400,000 florins in 1913; 141,147,000 in 1916. Gold flowed into Dutch banks (as it also piled up in Swedish, Norwegian, Swiss and Spanish banks). But taxes went up. It cost the Dutch $600,000,000 to keep half...