Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gross might do some painting himself, but he has never had time. Nor has he time any more for golf or much of anything else outside his job. He and his wife entertain rarely. When they do, the guests are usually Lockheed executives, with a sprinkling of movie folk, such as Gross's old friend Walter Pidgeon...
Most nights, Bob Gross is in bed by 10 (even on New Year's Eve he turned in by then), but not to sleep. Tortured by insomnia, he seldom sleeps more than a few hours a night. He used to try to read himself to sleep with mystery stories. But he had to give that up because his eyes have become weak and he is too vain to wear glasses. When the insomnia is particularly bad he gets up, dresses and spends the night walking the streets and up & down the hills of Bel Air mulling over business problems...
Make a Million. A faintly flat "a" still marks Bob Gross as a Bostonian. His family was fairly well-to-do, but his mother, of whom he says he is still scared to death, disapproved of the local schools. So she tutored Bob at home until he was ten. Then she put him in the first grade at public school. She had taught him so well that by afternoon he had been promoted to fifth grade. He spent his last school year at fashionable St. George's School in Newport. At Harvard he turned into a joiner...
...Gross learned about the stock market so fast that he was soon making money in it. He also bought & sold small companies. Before he was 30, he had made...
...some of his cash, he decided to go into the aviation business. It was not a whim: he had faith in its money-making future. He formed the Viking Flying Boat Co. to build sport-model seaplanes. The depression wiped out the market for seaplanes, along with most of Gross's million. He went to the West Coast to work for an airline. Gross was mightily impressed by the line's fast, sleek plywood Orions. They were made by Lockheed, which had been started in 1916 by two barnstorming brothers, Allan and Malcolm Loughead (pronounced Lockheed). Their planes...