Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe lifted industrial production by 76% (v. the U.S.'s 33%). West Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Finland and Turkey are producing 50% more than they did before the' war. In Great Britain, whose rate of productivity is generally discussed in gloomy terms, the gross national product is nearly one-third higher than in 1938, real per capita income up at least...
...steel mill, textile industry, housing developments and hundreds of other state-operated projects. But somehow, through inexperience and the complicated task of coping simultaneously with half a dozen rebellions, they failed to achieve most of their targets. Early this year, after almost a decade of independence, Burma's gross national product was still less than 90% of what it had been under British rule in 1939. Exports of rice, the nation's main source of foreign exchange, were less than two-thirds the prewar average...
...total G.M. business amounted to only about 3% of the company's $795 million sales in 1947; Du Font's real profit from G.M. is from its stock investment, which last year paid the chemical company $126 million in dividends-nearly 6% of its total gross income...
...chief reasons for the industry's drop in index is the disappointing performance of the auto industry, which is still drawing heavily on its steel inventories. Last week, Henry Ford noted that Ford automobile sales were up 14%, and the company will gross a record $3 billion in the first half. He predicted that "industry new-car sales for 1957 should equal or exceed slightly the 5,800,000 sold in 1956"-well below the 6,500,000 figure originally predicted by the industry, and later dropped to 6,000,000. General Motors' President Harlow S. Curtice...
...past ten years, accelerating faster than the sales of its top competitors, Burroughs Corp. and National Cash Register Co. Sales and rentals for the first quarter of 1957 hit $215.7 million v. $155.5 million in January-March of 1956. Wall Street brokers expect IBM's gross income to jump 25% a year for the next five years, as U.S. industry steps up automation, notably in the office, where clerical workers are becoming scarce and more costly...