Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from New York University, has been with the Bureau of Standards since 1932, was one of the principal developers of the proximity fuse in World War II. Editorialized Science, the publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: "The independence of the scientist has been challenged ... A gross injustice has been done . . . Scientific work in the Government has been placed in jeopardy." Then the Senate Small Business Committee, headed by Minnesota's Republican Senator Ed Thye, announced that it would conduct a full-scale investigation. At the Bureau of Standards itself, 400 staffers let it be known...
...Delegate Ernest Gross called...
...bead on a new target: 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. As spokesman for about $600,000 of the company's stock (which at current market prices represents about 40,000 shares), he charged President Spyros Skouras and Production Boss Darryl Zanuck with "false and fictitious expenses" and "gross mismanagement," filed a lawsuit to break their contracts with the company. Under the contracts, Zanuck is paid $260,000 a year and Skouras $250,000. The contracts also provide for payments of $750.000 to Zanuck's estate and $250,000 to Skouras' if either dies before the contracts expire...
Presumably, part of the gross mismanagement occurred last summer when Green and his wife were refused permission to tour the Fox lot. He was also mad about the decline of Fox stock and Fox dividends (from $4 in 1946 to $1 last year). However, Green ignored the fact that Zanuck was one of the chief reasons for Fox's success. And as Skouras pointed out in a report last month, since he became president in 1942, Fox has paid $24.25-a-share dividends-more than its current market price...
...branched into aircraft, making valves for France's Spad fighters. By 1929, when the Thompson Trophy was created for Cleveland's National Air Races, Crawford had moved up to vice president and general manager. At Thompson's death* in 1933, Crawford took over a company with gross sales of $3,000,000. He ran it so well that last year its sales topped $270 million- a growth of 8,900% in 20 years-and its net profits are estimated...