Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing all Harvard boys seem to have in common is their misconception of the average Cornellian, who is pictured as a gross, hairy creature dressed in an FFA jacket, a week's growth of beard and a pair of green suede shoes...
...first all-night sing, switching from profitable ($75,000 a year) hillbilly music to "dedicate my singing to the Lord." Today, there are a dozen full-time gospel groups roving the countryside, singing about 250 engagements a year. Top quartets get about $400 an appearance, for an annual gross of about $20,000 a man. Although some of the quartets record for RCA and other big companies, their best sales are on small Southern labels, and Southern sheet-music sales are often in the millions...
...succeeded where many another failed: he proved that a prefabricated house can be mass-produced and sold at a profit without looking like a Quonset hut. Last year Price sold 14,127 nonfarm houses; in 1954 he will account for one out of every 48 started. On a gross of $41 million, National netted $1,700,000 in fiscal...
...down to zero. Another secret is his fleet of 255 huge trailers to deliver houses to building sites within 400 miles of his plant, thus licking the transportation costs that ruined many other prefabbers. Price sells his houses through some 550 builder-dealers around the country, some of whom gross upwards of $500,000 a year. Biggest cluster of National homes: a development of 2,000 units at Fort Wayne...
...among U.S. films, finishes up its second year this week-still going strong. Its exhibitors, Stanley Warner Management Corp., totted up some cheerful facts and figures. Shown in only 13 big cities, Cinerama nevertheless drew a total audience of over 9,000,000. Original cost: $900,000. Box-office gross to date: $17 million. First European showing: in London, this week. Coming soon: Cinerama Holiday, produced by Louis de Rochemont...