Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earnings and profits are comparatively low. The average gross amount earned by the individual students who reported was only $211, and the net amount cleared was $94. The average amount earned per hour was only 51 cents and the average individual profit per hour over expenses 21 cents. Those facts seriously challenge the claims made by certain of these companies that canvassing of this nature yields a higher return than other kinds of summer employment...
...nations of Europe who owe us money that we will forget all about it for 20 years, and not only will we do that, but we will write off as paid each year 25% of the gross value of American products which they buy from...
...much longer." George V observed with satisfaction that each of the 3,000-odd stones in his reblocked headgear, diligently polished, now twinkle and gleam anew. (Startled was 17th Century England when Oliver Cromwell, having ousted the House of Stuart, discovered that the Queen's coronation crown was a gross imposture of silver-gilt and paste jewels worth
Middle West Utilities is the holding company for Insull properties outside the Indiana, Northern 111. and Chicago Group. More than 70% of the gross income of its subsidiaries is from power sales. Ice, gas, water, heat & transportation account for the rest. Its transmission lines total 45,187 mi., its ice plants can turn out 14,261 tons a day. The financial problems of Middle West Utilities were Mr. Insull's chief causes of worry last week. The parent company has bank loans of $21,900,000 while National Electric is $27,700,000 in debt to the banks. The parent...
...above statement must be accepted as evidence that gross frauds have been perpetrated by Mr. Kreuger...