Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...funds-the House's Big Two, and the President, too, took a real pasting. The Senate had agreed to a three-year foreign-aid economic-development program, had authorized $2 billion to finance it. The rebellious House, unimpressed by a special presidential plea (snapped Iowa Republican H. R. Gross: "I took my last marching orders in 1916-19"), limited this key Administration program to one year, authorized only $500 million to get it going. Then the House (254-154) cut the President's $3.8 billion foreign-aid request to $3.1 billion...
...worked. The average visitor plunked down $2.72 for rides and admission, $2 for food, another 18? for souvenirs-Disneyland pennants, maps, Donald Duck caps, etc. All told this year, with attendance running 11% ahead of 1956, the turnstiles will clink 4,500,000 times. Disneyland will gross more than $11 million, and into Disney's treasure house will flow a Dumbo-sized profit after taxes of more than...
...experience to Kathryn Murray. Her twin girls were twelve before she stirred out of a housewife's role and joined her husband in running his Manhattan dance studio. Since then, thanks largely to her sparkplugging, the Murrays have built an empire of 450 studios piling up an annual gross of $60 million in the U.S. and six foreign countries. Between running the empire and helping to plan and rehearse the TV show, Kathryn has enough excess energy to rise daily at 6 a.m. in her Park Avenue apartment and bake cakes and cookies for Arthur to munch...
Getting Results. As the 27th year of the Era of Trujillo neared an end, the strongman was still working a seven-day week and still getting results. The gross national product in 1956 was well over $500 million. Exports last year (mainly sugar, coffee, cocoa) reached a record high of $126.5 million. Imports in 1956 were held to $108.3 million, leaving a trade surplus of $18.2 million. The record 1957 budget, nicely balanced at $131.5 million, will buy more schools, hospitals and roads...
...persuasive Wayne G. Current. Live-wire Current, who quit the paper when Publisher McDowell cut commissions, decided to rally financial support for a new daily in Lima, and approached Sam Kamin and James A. Howenstine, two self-made industrialists who head Lima's Neon Products, Inc. (1956 gross: $7,000,000). The partners put up $100,000 and, at Current's suggestion, decided to sell $200,000 worth of stock in order to make the new paper a community project. Its name: the Lima Citizen. Of more than 1,000 Limaites who bought up the shares, only some...