Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LANIS GROSS...
Lockheed's Robert E. Gross had thought he had "ample reserves to face the peace." Now they are gone. The Glenn L. Martin Co. laid off 2,000 workers last fortnight, and last week announced it would skip its quarterly dividend. Douglas Aircraft Co., which can usually make money if anyone can, reported a loss of $807,000 in the quarter ending Feb. 28. On the first 20 DC-6 transports delivered, it has lost over $5,000,000. (It hopes to make a profit on them eventually.) Republic Aviation Corp., now building the Army's fastest...
Lost Ground. Lockheed's Gross warned that the U.S. is in danger of "being outstripped in technical achievements by Britain [notably in jet planes] and surpassed in numbers by Russia." The only way in which the industry can survive, Gross claims, is to merge the 14 major companies into eight or nine, each concentrating on a single plane type...
...amazing! Products designed or packaged by Raymond Loewy have current gross sales of over $1,000,000 [TIME, April...
Carnegie Hall (Morros-LeBaron; United Artists) probably contains more famous music per foot of film, interpreted by more famous musicians, than any other movie ever made. The chances are that it will gross millions. This does not mean, necessarily, that music lovers will love it. Nearly every number is the most over-familiar one that could have been chosen...