Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tears in Africa. The Belgians compare the Congo with the state of Texas, though in fact the Congo is bigger and far richer in its natural resources. The Congo's gross national product has tripled since 1939. Money is plentiful. Belgian investors take more than $50 million a year in dividends alone. Once the Congo depended exclusively on mining and farming; today it manufactures ships, shoes, cigarettes, chemicals, explosives and photographic film. With its immense reserves of hydroelectric power (a fifth of the world's total), the Belgians expect the Congo to become "the processing plant...
...President Eisenhower to illustrate the benefits of peacetime atomic energy, will be sailing the high seas by 1957 if Congress approves the necessary funds. According to AEC and the Maritime Administration, the nuclear-powered freighter will cost some $30 million, be in the 10,000 to 15,000 gross-ton class and about 500 ft. long. It will be fitted out as a floating exhibition hall, with a theater seating 1,000, exhibition spaces, a dispensary and accommodations for 75 crewmen and passengers. Annual operating cost: about...
Hilton had a strong answer to the Government's case. For one thing, said he, "we don't think we're in interstate business." For another: "In the U.S. there are 30,000 hotels with 1,500,000 guest rooms, which make an annual gross in excess of $2 billion. We operate 23 hotels in the U.S. [with] 24,680 rooms, and in 1954 their gross was $119 million. That is not a monopoly. We will vigorously defend the action of our corporation in acquiring the Statler company." Added Hilton: "Most of our future expansion will...
...from the time he is taken from the bulrushes until, a bearded old man, he climbs Mount Nebo, is expected, almost literally, to run forever in movie houses throughout the world. The picture will take at least 3½ hours to play and Paramount hopefully estimates that it will gross as much as $100 million...
...gross injustice to the reviewer to say that we did not understand the review, or it may be third-year injustice to suggest that he must have been browsing around Widenor and the Philosophy section on his way home from a class in History to which he bore a grudge against the professor. Pfft 1 as he likes to call our book may not meet the literary standards of the Pickwick papers, but no attempt was made to do so, and we dare say that there is doubt that we could, if we attempted to do so. And like...