Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Studies indicate that 40 per cent of the financial aid recipients come from homes where the total yearly earnings are less than $2,600; 56 per cent come from families which gross less than $4,800 per year...
...really had won, and the voters didn't know it. That startling fact illustrates the present muddle of Italian politics. The De Gasperi coalition actually polled more than a majority of the gross vote-some 52%-and was entitled to a bonus, which would have given De Gasperi 657 of the seats. He did not claim it. The Communists had cannily challenged 1,300.000 ballots-three times more than they challenged in the 1948 elections. The bulk of the questioned ballots are known to be legally pro-De Gasperi, entitling the democratic coalition to about 70 seats held...
When Promoter-Player Jack Kramer finished his professional tennis tour last May, he first jotted down the score that interested him most: an $860,000 gross. Then he added up a secondary score: he had beaten Australia's Frank Sedgman 54 matches to 41, and had paid Sedgman more than $125,000 for taking the lumps. For this season, Player Kramer decided to stick to being Promoter Kramer...
Lowell's balanced lineup, with Cliff Alexander, Roger Golde, Cal Gross, Chuck Cole, and Bob Parenti starting, should put the Bellboys in the upper division...
After totting up the 1953 box-office figures this week, Variety reported that the No. 1 picture-though in release only three months - was 20th Century-Fox's first CinemaScopepic, The Robe. The estimated gross: between $20 million and $30 million, a fair start toward topping Gone With the Wind, the alltime top-grosser ($35 million...