Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daily Lock Haven (Pa.) Express (circ. 7,639), Editor Rebecca Gross, 48, sounded a holiday editorial warning to drive carefully: "Who wants to start the New Year in a hospital or a morgue?" Shortly after, Editor Gross, one of a group of U.S. editors to visit Moscow last year (TIME, April 13), and one of the first two newswomen ever to be awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, proved her own point. On New Year's Eve, according to a witness, she drove through a new stop sign, crashed into another car. At the hospital, her right...
...that the call rate roseto 20%; Government spending, instead of declining, was actually up for the year. In any case, any rise or fall in Government spending would have been a trivial factor; the entire federal budget in 1929 was only $3,500,000,000, or 3% of the Gross National Product, compared to $72 billion, or 19% of G.N.P...
...Sears, Roebuck bought a site in Lima for its first retail store in Peru, its 25th in Latin America. Sears stores are already doing well ($75 million gross last year) in Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil and Colombia...
...gross national product (the total value of all goods and services produced) reached a new peak of $368 billion, up 5% from the year before. What gave meaning to all the figures was that for the most part they represented real gains, not just more inflation. The cost of living during the year edged up a mere 1%, and at year's end had turned down...
...sales and order charts, saw only a shower. Even those who had once talked loudly of depression now spoke of a "rolling readjustment," a "mild recession" or a "lull." The new cliché was "let's be realistic." Being "realistic" meant a drop, at most, in the gross national product of 5% to 10% (or back to about the level of 1952) and a rise in unemployment to 3,500,000. But such "realism" did not necessarily mean that the economy would be much shaken...