Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gross Violation." The State Department note rejected three separate Soviet government complaints, which were based, said the note, on misinformation supplied by Jake. "Consul General Lomakin's conduct constitutes an abuse of the prerogatives of his position and a gross violation [of diplomatic standards] ... It is requested that he leave the United States...
Last week London's Marriage Guidance Clinic presented to the International Congress on Mental Health (see above), a "little Kinsey Report" based on a study of 1,000 married couples. Some of the findings : more than half had "basic sex problems"; one-fourth showed "gross sex ignorance"; only 25 had read a book of sexual instruction; almost one-third of the wives were unsatisfied sexually...
Driver's Seat. Yearly sales of Loewy-designed products now exceed $1 billion. Loewy's own gross runs between $2,500,000 and $3,000,000. His net, which he shares with five partners, including his good friend and ex-wife Virginia Thomson Loewy, is a secret, but Loewy manages to keep up two French chateaux, a Park Avenue apartment, a Long Island estate and a California desert hideaway. He likes to buy new limousines and restyle them to his own exacting taste...
Bank Figures. The World Bank wound up its second year with a profit of $4,094,652 (on a gross of $18,703,978), which would wipe out the first year's deficit of $1,063,805 and provide a tidy addition to its capital funds...
...National Retail Dry Goods Association. Though "it is not our normal function to advertise any manufacturer," said a N.R.D.G.A. bulletin, Lee Skirt is providing "a reliable garment at a price which should . . . help overcome the public dissatisfaction over the price situation." A happier result: the company expects to gross more than $1,000,000 in 1948, a 100% increase in a year...