Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like any good huckster, Nenni began by disclaiming any gross material interest in the sale. He was not there "by order of Stalin," he said, but merely to report "conversations that have the advantage of being genuine." Then, smoothly, he began to play upon the fears of his audience: "The Kennan policy of containment . . . has failed." The alternative is "understanding or a third world war ... or maybe 30 years of cold war, which would be just as fatal." Echoing Malenkov, Nenni said that Russia "has no designs of conquest, since she considers her own security guaranteed." Then...
...former president of Gerber Products Co., baby foods; in Fremont, Mich. Father & son started the new industry (strained peas, prunes, carrots, spinach) in 1928 to provide an easier way of preparing vegetables for Gerber's grandchildren. They placed small ads in national magazines (six cans for $1), grossed $22,000 the first year, expect to gross about $54 million this year...
Sanders and Cummins hope that they have hit a minor gold mine. Their current double bill, they figure, might gross more than $1,000,000. It might even hit closer to $2,000,000 if RKO and Loew's theaters decide to book the pictures for their chains. Says Sanders: "There are about 250 art houses in the U.S., and about 1,000 more that will take good art pictures." With customers ready & waiting for all the good old silents that he can find, Sanders is content to let Hollywood and TV fight it out. He is now negotiating...
...took a case," Leach said, "which is being tried before the American people today." The verdict, by class vote: General MacArthur, by gross miscalculation in withdrawing American troops in 1949, was responsible...
Stevenson has joined in spreading the illusion that the Depression was caused by Republican incompetence and wiped out by the magic of FDR. This is at least a gross oversimplification. He has accused the Republicans of advocating military weakness; yet there has been no more persistent advocate of a realistic arms program than Henry Cabot Lodge, to whom Ike owes his nominations. Stevenson claims that corruption in government is primarily the fault of the voters. Such specious reasoning is not forthrightness. His argument will be true only if the voters endorse the corrupt administration at the polls...