Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farmer Rice and his crude trap-nest goes credit for starting the scientific breeding of hens that has made modern egg production possible. The poultry business is today close to a billion-dollar-a-year industry (fourth after cattle, hogs and dairying in U.S. agriculture's gross income). To Professor Rice, founder (1903) and retired (1934) head of Cornell's first U. S. poultry school, goes credit, too, for fathering poultry breeding as an agricultural science...
...farmers took in $990,000,000 gross income from chicken and eggs. Most of it went into the farmer's wife's china teapot...
...Bill Bibichkow took the rest of the capital and came back with a scroll saw. Working after classes at Crane Technical High School they began to turn out model airplane kits, sold the first one for 43?. For the first month of their partnership-October, 1929-their books showed: gross business, $5.59; expenses, $3.35; balance...
...lieu of taxes TVA pays the States in its area 5 % of gross receipts from power sales...
Cattleyas. The furtive human shadows who strip rare cattleyas from South American jungles and ship them to stock the hothouses of U. S. orchid growers sometimes gross $25,000 on a shipment. More often they die of malaria or snakebite. To 28-year-old Norman MacDonald & Frank McKay of suburban Nutley, N. J., such odds seemed better than their humdrum jobs (a broker's office, a radio-tube factory). Resolved to hunt orchids themselves, they somehow persuaded U. S. orchid growers to stake them to orders for 6,400 cattleyas from Colombia and Venezuela. When, one Christmas...