Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are many) might be. When the general picture of American private debt is considered, however, these figures do not seem so formidable. In the past decade consumer credit went up nearly three and a half billion dollars a year, and mortgage debts rose nearly eleven billion a year. Gross savings, at thirty seven billion in 1947, are predicted to jump to a hundred billion by 1970. The increase in debt incurred by the Harris plan would, in this respect, be relatively small...
...whole article is based either on affirmations or innuendoes to the effect that I have been, so to say, conspiring against General de Gaulle and that he scored a triumph in a battle against me. The first point I consider a gross insult, as I have been on General de Gaulle's side for 18 years, as I still am; the second one is simply ludicrous. It is ridiculous to talk of my "blasted dreams" and even more to say that France experimented with the birth of hope because I, the number one enemy, was "under control...
...Washington Times, Houston Chronicle), borrowed $1,500 on an insurance policy, and started a weekly in Dunellen, N.J. With a fancy for hard work and a flair for the outlandish, Publisher Spayth has doggedly built his investment into three small Jersey weeklies and a shopping-news, this year will gross some...
Revue (which died of atrophy two years ago). In 1939 along came the Ice Capades, now the nation's largest, with two separate companies touring the U.S. (last year's gross: about $10 million). When Minneapolis Restaurateur Morris Chal-fen bought tiny Holiday Inc. in 1945, the Big Three had successfully tied up all major U.S. ice palaces...
Food sales account for 70 percent of Cronin's gross, liquor the other 30 percent. About 1,120 gallons of beer come out of the tap each week. Cronin tends bar occasionally, and voices wise words for other bartenders: "Remain aloof yet attentive. Listen, but never give advice...