Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hopkins has been married three times. The first was in 1913 when, as a young Manhattan social worker just out of Grinnell College, he met, ardently wooed and won another young social worker named Ethel Gross. They had four children. One died in infancy. The others, all sons, entered the Army, Navy & Marines when war came. Pfc. Stephen Hopkins of the Marines was killed in action last February on Namu Island. Lieut. David Hopkins of the Navy is in the South Pacific, and Sergeant Robert Hopkins is in Europe...
Much has taken place in the privatizes of our dear company since we last appeared in print. The Christmas leave was spent profitably (either in action or just comfortably asleep all day), New Year's Eve was written off as a gross loss, but the final net profit for the period won't be determined until the results of those fateful mid-terms are publicized on or about 15 January. As Herman Homer Cone says, "It isn't the marks, it's the worry and uncertainty that slays...
...mellow, elm-shaded town of Vincennes, Ind. (pop. 18,228). There they commemorated the 100th anniversary of the opening of Peddler Adam's wondrous "Palace of Trade," with the prediction: "The best 100 years lie ahead." Last week the Gimbel mercantile dynasty proudly ended its best year. The gross for 1944 was estimated at an alltime high of upwards of $190 million. Result: Gimbel's, in fourth place in 1942, is now the leading metropolitan department store chain...
...Allied Stores (mainly a holding company) still has a larger gross from its small department stores and small-town chains. Gimbel's', solely an operating company, is only in bigger cities, as Manhattan, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Milwaukee. Gimbel-owned Saks stores are in Manhattan (two stores), Beverly Hills, Chicago, Detroit, Miami Beach and Palm Peach.There has been no Gimbel-owned store in Vincennes since...
...such, 1944 would take its place in the economist's gallery alongside other statistically famous vintage years: 1913, 1926, 1929, 1939. But even these were thin, sour wines alongside the full-blown, fabulously rich year of 1944. The cold figures, such as the gross national product of $196 billion, were almost too big to grasp. The significant fact of the year was that the U.S. could pour out some $90 billion for war, and another $100 billion for consumer goods and services (see chart...