Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Latching onto the 1,000 employees of Roto-Broil Corp. (electric broilers), one crooked local was so helpful as to allow the management (1956 gross: $10 million) to keep about $23,000 in check-off dues. In most other instances Dio-controlled "unions" were nothing beyond fronts for extortion thugs, who sent their worried victims into the arms of Equitable Research Associates, Inc. For handsome fees Equitable saw to it that employers were never bothered by Dio's union organizers. Equitable's boss: Johnny...
WORLD'S SHIPBUILDERS will set peacetime record this year. Major maritime nations (excluding U.S.S.R., Red China) are now working on some 1,700 ships totaling 8,778,000 gross tons-up 20% from same period last year-and have additional orders for 24 million tons of new vessels, nearly two-thirds of them tankers. Front-running Japan launched 503,000 tons of shipping in June quarter, but British builders are ahead in shipping under construction, with 2,000,0000 tons v. 1,500,000 tons for Japan...
Most horrifying of all (to a novelist), Pinfold hears a man called Clutton-Cornforth reviewing his books on the BBC: "The basic qualities of a Pinfold novel . . . may be enumerated thus: conventionality of plot; falseness of characterization; morbid sentimentality; gross and hackneyed farce alternating with grosser and more hackneyed melodrama; cloying religiosity...
...appraisal: "Spotty." He was worried about inflation's steady spiral, which pushed living costs to an alltime high in June (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Yet the economy seemed well able to absorb the high prices-at least for the moment. In 1957's second quarter, the gross national product climbed to an annual rate of $433.5 billion, some 5% more than last year; half the gain was due to inflated prices, but the rest was a result of new production. Predicted Weeks; 1957 "will be the best year in the history of the economy...
...precise, specially tailored reports they want, more and more companies are turning to private weathermen, who tell them what the weather will be one hour or one year ahead. In the process they have spawned a booming young business of 29 independent firms and some 600 private meteorologists, whose gross this year will top $15 million and whose forecasts will save U.S. industry an estimated $200 million...