Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smile." Arthur Murray himself owns only one dance studio outright (in Manhattan), but he keeps a firm hand on the others under franchise, takes 10% of their gross. His instructors, who get $55 to $100 a week, go through a month's training period before getting an arm around a customer, are carefully briefed on the best techniques. "You are not dressed for work until you put on a smile!" cautions an instruction pamphlet. "Everyone should use a deodorant! Perfume does not conceal...
...There appears to be a general feeling in Cambridge that gross outrage was committed on the part of the police, which the students for once entirely justified in repulsing. Even the faculty of the college, which so seldom takes sides with the students, are of the same opinion...
Assisted by U.S. dollars and skill, but doing its own hard work and running its Own show, Turkey is increasing its per Capita income 7% per annum, its gross national product 10%. As recently as 1950, Turkey had to import wheat; today she is the No. 4 wheat exporter in the world. In the same three years, Turkey's tractors increased by 900%, farm acreage 25%, mileage of all-weather roads 100%, port capacity 250%, cotton output 300%. Yet these are the people of whom the Bulgar peasant used to say, making the sign of the cross: "No grass...
...buying Kingan, Slotkin had bitten off a big chunk of troubles. But last week Slotkin was sure that, by such economies as combining the two firms' sales forces, he would soon have Kingan on a paying basis. Eventually, he estimates, the merger should mean a $500 million annual gross for Hygrade. Exuberant over this gratifying prospect, and incidentally to persuade Kingan minority stockholders to exchange their shares, Slotkin last week declared a 100% stock dividend for his Hygrade stockholders...
...first wide-screen CinemaScope epic, soth Century-Fox's The Robe, was breaking box-office records all over the country. Manhattan's Roxy Theater reported a first-week gross of $264,000. It was the same story in Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Kansas City and San Francisco. Foxmen dreamily talked of total earnings topping Gone With the Wind's record $35 million take. Hollywood Reporter Columnist Mike Connolly wrote: "The Robe just has to be the greatest grosser of all time. It might even outsell the Bible...