Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...autos; the final figure is 5,500,000. We said there would be 3,500,000 unemployed; the peak figure was 3,725,000. For refrigerators we estimated 3,500,000 units would be produced; 3,425,000 units were turned out. We expected a drop in the gross national product of not more than 5-10%; the actual figure was around 3%. Last year's story also told of the healthy prospects for the stock market. Last month (TIME. Dec. 6) we were able to report the story of the fabulous bull market...
...Canada's year-end mood. Earlier in the year, the nation's confidence was shaken by forebodings of depression. Unemployment was on the increase; industrial wage scales began to dip. Western Canada's wheat crop was the poorest in 17 years; retail business fell off. The gross national product, the handiest yardstick for measuring economic progress, appeared to be headed sharply downward...
When the time came at year's end for government statisticians to compute 1954's gross national product, they got a pleasant surprise: the total came close to $24 billion, only $500 million below the 1953 record. The decline was due almost entirely to the prairie crop failure, which cut farm production by just about $500 million. Except for that one unavoidable setback, the Canadian economy in 1954 had kept pace with the record 1953 rate, and fully warranted an optimistic report by Prime Minister St. Laurent as the new year dawned...
Nobody Loses. It was a deal that seemed to make everybody happy. The $40 million yearly gross that Pacific Northwest originally expected will go up $20 million. The U.S. Northwest could be assured of 219 million cu. ft. of gas a day, v. the 169 million cu. ft. Fish could guarantee from San Juan. California and Denver will get more gas. For Canadians it meant the opening of the biggest and closest market for their gas, new prospecting, a 25% rate cut in Vancouver...
...moving into the kitchen, the Swansons have moved out of the family business founded by their father Carl in 1900. At first, the company supplied bulk frozen foods for other packagers. Later, during World War II, it turned out canned rations for the Army and stepped up its gross from $9,000,000 to $43 million in 1944. But the biggest jump came with peace, when the Swansons noted both the boom in home freezers and the shortage of domestic servants, brought out beef, chicken and turkey pies, new roast beef and fried chicken dinners, all ready for the oven...