Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conference will consist of two, concurrent panel discussion and the annual dinner. Neal Gross, Director of the Harvard School Executive Studies, will address the dinner on the topic. "The Pressures on and the Dilemmas of the School Superintendent...
...shareholders approve next month. G.E., which was 661 only eleven months ago, hit 100⅜, up 3⅞ on the news. It advanced another 3½ at the opening this week. The company reported sales at a record $3.1 billion for 1953, up 19% over its 1952 gross of $2.6 billion, and net profit up 9% to $5.75 a common share. The split would give G.E. 86,537,781 shares, second in outstanding stock only to General Motors Corp., with...
...born in 1926, until now it controls a network of plants and sales offices in 19 countries around the world (more than 100 plants, 110,000 workers in Britain alone), makes 12,000 products from table salt to fertilizer and bulletproof gas tanks. In 1952 the company's gross sales hit $774 million, its gross profits more than $100 million. The tally for 1953 will be even better, enough for a record 15% dividend to I.C.I.'s more than 250,000 stockholders...
...they cited Chrysler. The company's share of the auto market slumped nearly 1% last year, and Chrysler was expected to have a poor earnings report. Rumors even buzzed of a possible cut in dividends. Yet when its annual report came out last week, Chrysler announced a record gross of $3.3 billion. Though it had a 5% drop in its net income, it still made $8.59 a share in 1953 and declared the usual $1.50 quarterly dividend...
...tower friendship belongs the occasion when Joyce, while in search for a title for his first book of poems, stumbled on a salesman's suitcase containing one gross of "ladies' undies." Fortified with "a few pints," Joyce took the underwear to the red-light district and hurled it into the bed of "the mistress of Sweeney the greengrocer . . . As he did so, his toe struck the night jar or 'chamber' and it rang musically." Gogarty and Joyce woke next morning lying side by side in a potato field, and the poet's first words, says...