Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gross Understatement...
Your comment that Connecticut's Blue Law is widely disregarded [TIME, April 21] is a gross understatement. In both Massachusetts and Connecticut it is illegal for doctors to give contraceptive advice to married women, and the Roman Catholic citizens are told that "Birth Control is against God's Law." Yet the birth rates in these two states are among the lowest in the country, and before the war were lower than those of France-about one-third of the physiological maximum. Obviously the majority of the people in both states practice birth control regardless of legal restrictions...
...interested," perhaps they'd better talk things over. As matters stood, the pay from his syndicated column was chicken feed for Turkey Gobbler Winchell: on the radio, where he sells lotion, he was getting $7,500 a week, a $130,000-a-year raise over 1946. His gross income: $502,000 a year...
...mature school" economists, the Twentieth Century report finds that there is plenty of room for dynamic expansion in the U.S. economy. Thus the report estimates that in 1950 57,000,000 will be employed. They will be working fewer hours (an average of 41 a week) to produce a gross national product of $177 billion (in terms of 1944 prices)-nearly double the best prewar year. The U.S. economy will then be short only some 13% in goods & services of maintaining the entire population at a satisfactory standard of living. By 1960, some 60,200,000 people will be working...
...light of current production, the report seemed conservative. There are now 58,000,000 employed and the gross national product is running at the rate of about $195 billion ($166 billion in 1944 prices). The report expects that the present working force will drop as some of the overfull employment is eliminated. Nevertheless, to come up to the report's minimum projection, the U.S. will have to increase its output only 7% in the next four years. Compared to what the U.S. has done in the last six years under forced draft, this seemed small...