Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, as debate continued, Ernest Gross, U.S. delegate to U.N., drew a line beyond which the U.S. would not go in any further dickering with the Chinese Communist aggressors. Said Gross, in a statement that might presage a major shift in U.S. policy: the U.S. would not take part in any conference on Formosa at which Nationalist China was not represented; furthermore, the U.S. was still opposed to a U.N. seat for Red China...
...Austrian side of the Alps was worse hit than the Swiss. Forty-five thousand people in the Austrian provinces of Tyrol, Styria and Salzkammergut were cut off from the outside world. A rumbling avalanche tore down the slopes of Gross-Glockner mountain and swallowed up the resort village of Heiligenblut. Slides killed 14 near the famous health resort of Bad Gastein. To help in rescue work, French occupation commanders placed their entire 4,000-man military force at the disposal of Austrian authorities...
...played) telecasting of regular-season college football next fall, left it up to member schools to comply or not, as they thought best. ¶ Agreed that member schools should not play in post-season bowl games unless the price is right, i.e., teams must be guaranteed 75% of the gross receipts...
...registration gave outsiders their first peek at Macmillan's financial statement. In the last ten years, its gross had risen from $6.8 million to $13.2 million in 1950. Net profit last year was $627,700; dividends totaled $1.50 a share. Macmillan had been able to pay a regular dividend every year since 1898 by concentrating on the educational and textbook field, where the profit margin is higher than that for trade (i.e., general reader) books...
...Magnin's, which last year accounted for 30% of Bullock's $106 million gross, President Escobosa will be strictly his own boss, running the chain from his San Francisco headquarters as a separate entity from the parent company. He plans to go slow with changes at first, stick closely to Magnin's long tradition of elegant good taste and high fashion. "However," says he, "don't get the idea that I'm some kind of long-haired merchant. I'm not just interested in chiffons and brocades. I'm here to build...