Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dulles as "a great political figure," but of course his compliment had a Communist twist to it. Khrushchev's bare-faced whopper: in his last days, chatting with Mikoyan, Dulles had reversed his policy and accepted Russian domination of Eastern Europe. Dulles was not alive to answer so gross a fairy story,* and Khrushchev added kindly, "To make such a declaration required courage." The State Department noted tartly that Khrushchev's menacing insults to Italy and Greece hardly fitted in with his pre-summit stance of trying to ease tensions...
...businessmen met, the latest statistics from Washington underscored their forecasts. Gross national product was rising even faster than the preliminary estimates, reached an annual rate of $467 billion for the first quarter of 1959. More important, the gain was real: with hardly any price rise to speak of since last year, the new G.N.P. showed an 8% jump in constant dollars from the recession...
...into specialized truck bodies-dump trucks, asphalt spreaders, tank trailers. "Business has increased 300% to 400% every year since I started," says Millionaire Sanson. Along with 39,892 other businesses (quadrupled since 1946), San-son's enterprise is riding a boom that has kited Brazil's gross national product up 63% in the past ten years, has boosted the per capita G.N.P. 29%-allowing for a population explosion from...
...with 100 or more employees, which use $1,000,000 annually in goods involved in interstate commerce. The Administration proposal will go up against the Kennedy-Morse bill, which would boost the minimum wage to $1.25 an hour, add coverage to include 7,800,000 employees of businesses with gross annual sales of $500,000 or more...
...Commerce Department said the gross national product--the value of all goods and services produced--rose $14 billion to a record annual rate of $467 billion...