Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gross profits of the slots, calculated at $600 per machine a year, brought in an annual profit of $3,000,000. But in 1934. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia ordered the machines seized, personally banged up dozens of them with a sledge hammer while photographers recorded his prowess. He also called fellow Italian and longtime admirer Frank Costello a bum, a tinhorn gambler, and a punk. That was the end of Tru-Mint and of Costello's regard for the Little Flower...
...Wall Street's eager speculators grabbing for Olin's stock. But Olin's 56-year-old President John M. Olin, and Vice President Spencer T. Olin, 48, his brother, have prudently kept most of the 2,000,000 shares of unlisted common stock to themselves, their gross and profit a secret...
...Olins branched out into such products as rollerskates, flashlights and skeet traps. The newest product: a tiny battery not much bigger than a penny, for. miniature radios and hearing aids. Brother John figures that the new Cellophane plant will add some $15 million a year to Olin Industries' gross. Said he, with feeling: "We look forward with real enthusiasm to Cellophane...
...religion, says Kristol, will never agree on truth. The issue between them is simple and clear-cut. Religion asserts "that the understanding of psychoanalysis is only a dismal, sophisticated misunderstanding, that human reason is inferior to divine reason, that the very existence of psychoanalysis is a symptom of gross spiritual distress . . . Psychoanalysis, religion might say, comes not to remove insanity, but to inaugurate...
Night after night the Met was packed to the fire-limit (for an alltime record ballet box-office gross of $256,000). In four weeks, Margot Fonteyn and Sadler's Wells had restored as much glitter to Britain's tarnished tiara as any mission the English had sent abroad since the war. In London, cartoonists put Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Ernie Bevin and Sir Stafford Cripps* into tutus, hinted that they might do well to make their next visit to the U.S. on tiptoe...