Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pace is continuing. While the first quarter's gross national product topped the old record for the period (1953's $362 billion), the increasing tide of U.S. business in the last few weeks has pushed the annual rate very close to the alltime peak of $372 billion, set during the second quarter...
...economy, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks last week predicted: "We have a good chance of putting up the best year on record," better even than the record year of 1953. Basis for his prediction was the first-quarter record. Said Weeks: "It is clear from preliminary indications that the gross national product in the first quarter . . . was larger than any previous first quarter in our history...
...wiser decisions. The truly atrocious spots which earlier had marked the production have been shuffled off the stage: the opening half-hour is now a pleasing burst of song, not a dirge; and the cumbersome sketches have been pared to size. Through their expert cutting and repasting, Gross-Charnas-Weller have produced a musical of well-paced comedy and song. Great to Be Back! has become possible to enjoy and possible to recommend...
S.I.R. expects a yearly gross of $250,000, is going so well that Rue is now planning a 200-phone service in Manhattan...
...since the songs carry the show, and Weller's lyrics carry the songs. "We Want to Be Treated Like Women Again"--the number which shows Sheila Tobias off to best advantage--"To the Manor Born," "Happy Ending" and those already mentioned, are each cleverly concocted without being contrived. Charles Gross has proved himself equally talented on past occasions; this time, his music is adequate, sometimes less, never more...