Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...virtue of Crump's irascibility toward the "interests," it owned its own power, gas, water systems. The streetcar company had been slugged into kicking through with 6% of its gross receipts. Utility rates and taxes were...
...board chairman of North American Aviation, eventually landed in a G.M. vice presidential chair. In 1942, G.M.'s brown-haired boy was elected president of Bendix, controlled by G.M. By taking tough radar and radio contracts that other companies did not want, he pushed Bendix's annual gross up from $40,000,000 to nearly $1 billion. He still found time to play golf, fly his own plane, and pitch hay on his ten-acre farm near Detroit. With Ernie Breech calling signals, the auto industry may see plenty of power plays, with a little razzle-dazzle...
Camus, who is now on a U.S. lecture tour, has denied that he is an existentialist. He is nevertheless closely identified with this French literary cult, and The Stranger is right in its groove: "existential" pessimism underlines every cold, gross, irrational detail of the story...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Green Years (TIME, April 15) did so well in Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall-its third-week gross of $147,000 was second only to The Bells of St. Mary's in Music Hall history-that Metro planned a "cultural" (special showings for church and civic leaders) buildup, Gone With the Wind type of distribution...
This might have been the Cain to end Cains-and is more likely to do that in quite a different way. But not at the box office. There, considering the stars and the shock value, it ought to gross its weight in uranium...