Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Billion Dollar Club" got a new corporate member last week. Union Carbide and Carbon Corp., whose 1953 gross soared to $1,025,833,041, up 7% over 1952, became the 33rd U.S. corporation to rack up sales of more than $1 billion. One reason for the rise: Union Carbide's rapid expansion in the production of plastics...
...China. While Eden made temples with his hands and Bidault toyed with his left ear, Molotov let loose a quiverful of barbs at the U.S. U.S. bases abroad have been built to menace the U.S.S.R., said he, but the plan is "doomed to inevitable failure"; the U.S. has committed "gross violations" of the Korean truce agreement...
...Allow farmers to deduct full cost of conservation practices (up to 25% of their gross income), instead of present limited deductions...
...Allow farmers to deduct full cost of conservation practices (up to 25% of their gross income), instead of present limited deductions...
...farthest back into American life: cooking over an open fire. In the newest expensive kitchens, fireplaces or barbecue pits are standard equipment. Other householders use broilers or rotisseries. Broiler sales last year reached $72,402,000, more than quadruple :he 1952 total. One new firm, the Broil-Quik Co., grossed around $1,000,000 in 1950, its first year; by last year, sales had shot up to $10 million, and the company expects to gross between $15 million and $20 million in 1954. Welbilt Stove last year put an electric rotisserie in one of its gas ranges and sold...