Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after Stalin's death was proclaimed, the world learned the name of his successor: Georgy Malenkov, gross and flaccid in appearance but in fact a chip off the same granite block. For the moment, there was no sign of quarreling among the pallbearers. While the new regime dug in, the rest of the world might get a breathing spell, But the death of Stalin itself did not change any fact of geography, economics or ambition; it did not destroy a single Soviet regiment nor ground a single MIG, nor stop a single...
...nation's biggest drug manufacturers last week agreed to become the biggest. Directors of Merck & Co., which grossed $105.7 million and netted $8.4 million last year, and Sharp & Dohme, which netted $3.9 million on a $50.4 million gross, okayed a plan to merge. If stockholders approve, the combined company will pass Parke, Davis & Co. as the biggest U.S. maker of ethical drugs...
...This is a grave incident. It involves a gross violation of the U.S. zone border by satellite or Soviet aircraft. It involves the wanton shooting down of an American plane well inside the U.S. zone of Germany...
...Snell says things have been doing "Quite well." He expects Johnson to gross $250,000 this year, and plans to have the line completely paid for within four years. The line operates over a 100 mile route between Milford, Boston, Woonsocket, R.I., and Framingham, Mass...
Besides the tax cuts, the budget told other good news about the Canadian economy. The value of the gross national product jumped 7% last year; wages and incomes went up 12%. At the same time, prices dropped, personal savings increased, and inflation appeared to be checked. Said Abbott: "Those who argued in 1950 that we were in for a siege of indefinite inflation have been just as wrong as the pessimists who since the end of the war have been persistently predicting a new depression...