Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loudly for weeks, the U.S. responded to Soviet Russia's vitriolic germ-warfare propaganda. The U.N. Security Council took up a U.S. resolution proposing an on-the-spot International Red Cross investigation of Communist charges that the U.N. forces had waged germ warfare in Korea. U.S. Delegate Ernest Gross challenged: "If what we say about the campaign of hate is not true, the Soviet government can show us up [with] ... an impartial investigation...
...debt-ridden New York City, the big Wall Street investment firms have always looked good for another tax touch. Since 1948, Wall Street firms have been paying 2/5 of 1% on their gross income in taxes. On July 1, the bite was raised...
...agreed that one studio at least had struck pay dirt. After thriftily digging into its storehouse of possible reissues, RKO dusted off the 19-year-old King Kong, the adventures of a snarling, 50-ft. prehistoric monster who saved RKO from bankruptcy in the thirties and seems destined to gross at least $2,500,000 for his masters...
...appeal and two new trials, but there was more trouble ahead. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1940 after a surprising political comeback, he faced a "moral turpitude" accusation. The Senate Elections Committee voted 13-3 to exclude him, after the majority agreed that his record was studded with "gross impropriety, lawlessness, shotgun law enforcement" and property deals which amounted to "briberies." Despite all this, the Senate as a whole finally seated him by a vote...
...obsolescent equipment. Like other Farben units, Bayer lost its export markets, which once accounted for about 50% of its sales, when Farben's central sales agency was abolished by the allies. Now the war damage has been repaired, new machinery added, and export business boosted to 34% of gross. In the last two years, Bayer sales have jumped 70%, to $165 million...