Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frozen cookie dough (TIME, Sept. 28). The idea caught on and soon outgrew Mrs. Ferguson's home kitchen. The venture was incorporated, and quickly became a center of community investment as Greeley townsfolk rushed to buy stock and admire the new cookie plant, where the Fergusons expect to gross $60,000 this year. Last week TIME'S Denver Correspondent Ed Ogle filed another report on the Ferguson enterprise: the story of what happened in Greeley after the TIME article appeared...
...apparently was little concerned over talk of recession and the fact that the gross national product (total value of goods and services produced in the U.S.) turned down in the third quarter of this year for the first time since the end of 1949. The Commerce Department reported that the G.N.P. was at the annual rate of $369 billion during the three months, down $3.5 billion from the preceding quarter, but still $24 billion higher than a year ago. Main reason for the drop: businessmen cut down buying for inventory. However, consumer spending remained at the high annual rate...
...when bolted together needs no cross beams or supports to hold large weights. Labor savings in construction run as high as 75%. Sales were soon so brisk that Comino opened a new factory in northwest London and three other shops around the city. By last year Dexion's gross had shot up to more than $2,800,000 annually...
Such an order would have to contend that Fingold had shown "gross abuse of discretion," in deciding not to act. No Massachusetts law allows a court to issue an order of this sort...
Automatic Baker. A.M.F. not only got a wide range of consumer products but its engineering staff has expanded from 100 men in 1945 to 1,300 today, and is good enough to land prime defense contracts. Of the company's $100 million backlog, 80% is in defense orders. Gross sales rose from $16,700,000 in 1946 to $105,800,000 last year, reached $106 million in the first nine months of 1953, half in defense orders. In almost every case, sales of subsidiary companies increased after A.M.F. took them over. And, though the company's outstanding stock...