Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of flood-wrecked British farmers, to whom I gave a great portion of my Brit ish royalties, or on a photograph of French blind veterans, who are happier today for my contribution. Or on many sections of the American unfortunate, to whom I give over 20% of my gross earnings as a writer every year. . . . In 1946, I gave nearly $20,000 to American charities, all practically without any publicity whatsoever...
Last year, with Phil as executive vice president, the company's gross sales from forest products were $66,271,996, its net income $12,995,478. This year, earnings are "slightly ahead" of last year. Eventually, Phil expects that his new bark byproducts will add $10,000,000 a year to his gross business...
...members of the 30-man Board are George Whitney '07, of New York, president of J. P. Morgan Co. Inc.; Dr. George P. Denny '09, of Boston, a physician; Clarence B. Randall '12, of Chicago, vice-President of the Inland Steel Co.; Robert E. Gross '19, of Los Angeles, president and chairman of the board of Lockheed Aircraft Corp.; and Amory Houghton '21, of Corning, N. Y. chairman of the board of Corning Glass Works...
...most polished of the Restoration dramatists. Like the rest of them, he had a poor opinion of the human race. Either self-indulgence or self-interest is always well downstage in Love for Love; there is no love for love's sake. But where most Restoration writers were gross, Congreve was graceful. His people air their low thoughts in high language; his scandalmongers are witty; his sluts have style...
...which had long closed its ears to the small talk, big commercials and occasional records of the jockeys, had signed famed Jazzman Paul Whiteman for an hour spin five days a week. Mutual last week opposed him with an older spinster: Martin Block. From his four sponsors, Whiteman will gross $208,000 a year; Block will get $312,000, plus a couple of hundred thousand more from Manhattan's WNEW and Los Angeles' KFWB (altogether, disc jockeying's top dollar...