Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of 200 Harvard Business School graduates asked him to address them at Pasadena's high-hat Huntington Hotel last week, Beck (perhaps not knowing they had first failed to get eleven less controversial capitalists, among them Studebaker's Paul Hoffman and Lockheed's Robert Gross) was proud and happy to oblige. "I contend," said Beck, "that we are in a very serious recession. Ten weeks ago, I stated that the auto industry was in a terrible condition. Everybody said I was a prophet of gloom. But about three weeks later the Wall Street Journal came...
...Variety last week estimated that the picture's U.S. and Canada gross will reach...
...After polling its members, the National Association of Purchasing Agents, which bases its forecasts on actual buying plans, reported that members look for a business spurt during the second quarter of 1954. ¶ Treasury Under Secretary Marion Folsom came out with a flat prediction that both personal income and gross national product for the first quarter would be less than 1% below 1953's record levels...
Coffeeman Whitney closed up his shop, moved seven floors up in the same building to form Whitney Investment Co., and expects to gross $50,000 this year as a broker in penny stocks. Stockseller Coombs also started his own brokerage firm. Others got into the act, formed their own companies and began peddling stock. The boom will come of age when & if Prospector Steen and ex-Automan Joseph Frazer, who have formed Standard Uranium, get their stocks listed on the American Stock Exchange, as scheduled...
Some call Winthrop the home of the Crimson athlete, and they say that a Puritan scholar is a rare bird. This is a gross exaggeration. They are partially right, however, if they acknowledge that while a Winthrop man is known sooner for his letter sweater than for his letter grades the majority of Winthrop's athletes are good students...