Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fowler McCormick, chairman of the board of International Harvester Co., showed how, in a way everyone could understand. As Young Henry Ford had two months ago, Fowler McCormick cut the prices of his products (tractors, trucks, farm machinery) a round $20,000,000 a year, almost 5% of his gross sales. Harvester is not worried about a drop in sales-yet. But, said McCormick: "We decided to give the benefit [of high earnings] to customers rather than stockholders or employees because the time is here to recognize customers as an integral part of a business. Our present wage-price-profit...
...High school, Bath, Ohio; Francis F. Chen, Horace Mann School, New York; Giles Constable, Phillips Academy, Andover; Hampton Davis, Central High School, Sioux City, Iowa; Jack Durell '49, Bronx High School of Science, New York; Samuel I. Epstein, Boston Latin; Preston W. Gifford, Jr., Fairhaven High School, Fairhaven; Ralph Gross '49, James Madison High School, Brooklyn; Frederic D. Houghteling, Phillips Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire; Albert A. Kopf, George Washington High School, New York; Vasilios G. Letsou, Lowell High School; Norman G. Levinsky, Boston Latin; Robert F. Lundin, Medford High School' Frederick W. Marx, Jr. Phillips Academy, Exeter; Thomas...
...hardly possible to open a paper today without encountering some new phase of the gross cruelty and perverted enthusiasm with which so many of our "superior, kindly" U.S. citizens are persecuting and prosecuting their neighbors, whether black or Jewish or white or Catholic. But we seem, in California (of Nisei persecution fame), to have struck a new low in American idealism. TIME'S forthright report of it, "Nothing Personal" [Feb. 17), is to be commended. . . . To find a group of "white Caucasians" (both conditions a pure accident of birth), holier-than-thou, Nazi-principled bigots going...
...sales emphasis was on flowers. As usual, Philadelphia's W. Atlee Burpee Co., biggest mail-order seed house in the world (1946 gross: $5 million), made the biggest noise. It sent out three million catalogues to push the latest products of its California farm. Items: a yellow-pink snapdragon billed as the "first alldouble snapdragon ever grown from seed" and the "most sensational new flower for 1947"; a pink "alldouble" petunia called the "Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower" ($2 a packet...
...Navy jet fighter expected to fly upwards of 500 m.p.h. Thanks to its backlog of nearly $180 million, North American had to spend so much on expansion that it lost $216,784 in the first quarter of its 1947 year (which ends in September) on a gross...