Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...market to 60%, or was it afraid of becoming a monopoly? Answered Curtice: "We have to keep aggressively competitive in all areas in order to keep sure of maintaining even our position." To show what he meant, Curtice predicted that by 1962 auto registrations will rise 30%, with a gross national product of $500 billion. Then Capehart spoke up again. The line of questioning, it seemed to him, had nothing to do with the stock market. Snapped Fulbright: "You have no right continually to criticize my questions." But Capehart disagreed. "I am going to continue to do so because...
...against his father's impressive record. Since 1929, IBM sales have jumped an average of 14% each year. On his personal score card, Tom Watson Jr. has done even better, with an average gain of 19% for his three years. It is estimated that IBM's gross this year will hit $500 million, and profits will climb to $56 million...
...February, for the first time since the fall of 1953, the count of unemployed was lower than the same month a year earlier (3,383,000 v. 3,670,000). The average factory workweek was almost one hour longer than a year ago, and during January the average gross weekly pay rose nearly $1, to an alltime high...
Objection from France. But Lufthansa is not discouraged. Last year 26 international airlines crisscrossed Germany for a gross of 225 million DM ($53.6 million). In December alone, they carried 114,000 passengers (25% German). Lufthansa has already set up shop in Europe's largest, most modern hangar, in Hamburg, hired 700 employees, including a covey of trim stewardesses. Its bosses, moreover, are no novices in the harshly competitive airline business, but old hands. Hans M. Bongers, Lufthansa's chief, ran the line's prewar business department; Technical Director Gerhard Höltje is another veteran...
...state administration, usually politicians who set up the agencies in their own places of business. For each license issued, the agent gets a 25? fee, generally kicks in 1? to the party's state political fund and another penny to its county fund, and pockets the rest. Gross annual take for agents: about $1.5 million. Net to individual agents in a few populous areas runs up to $50,000 a year. * Grasping and re-grasping a friend's right arm with left hand, while shaking hands...