Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LOCKHEED'S President Robert Gross is again dickering with Howard Hughes for the sale of Hughes Aircraft Co., a leading U.S. maker of electronic equipment for fighter planes, to Lockheed. The deal has been off & on for weeks, with price the chief stumbling block...
...another way. By applying U.S. mass-production methods, Schuman's suppliers are able to weave top-quality cloth for him at $2 to $4 less a yard than the European wholesale price. The plan has also added $3,700,000 in new business to Schuman's gross, and to handle it he has hired 240 more U.S. workers. Impressed with these results, other San Francisco competitors have begun to copy Schuman's methods, and the San Francisco Coat & Suit Association is sending a representative to Paris to study Schuman's plan. Says Adolph Schuman...
...sets and costumes, some literate dialogue and an excellent cast. As young Bess, Jean Simmons gives a spirited performance that has both charm and imperiousness. Stewart Granger makes a dashing Tom Seymour, Guy Rolfe a convincingly evil villain, and Deborah Kerr a beautiful Catherine Parr. In the role of gross, big-bellied Henry VIII, Charles Laughton is again cast in the part that won him a 1933 Academy Award in The Private Life of Henry VIII. He seems to have a fine time as he struts around belching, disposing of five wives, and chewing up all the food - and scenery...
...teach two courses on radio at U.C.L.A. He found the experience pleasant but disillusioning: "I learned that there are commercial and sustaining shows in universities, too. The academic life is not as honest as I'd hoped it would be." Elliott and Cathy Lewis earn a combined gross income of $90,000 a year. By Hollywood standards, they live modestly in Beverly Hills (they are only now thinking of putting in a swimming pool). Elliott scarcely gives TV a passing glance ("The biggest TV development was enlarging the screen-that made it easier for people...
...quarter earnings reports continued to pour out last week, the rosiest came from General Motors. President Harlow Curtice reported that arms orders and the biggest production of cars and trucks since 1950 had brought G.M. sales to $2.5 billion, an alltime high rate of $10 billion a year. The gross was up 42.6% from a year ago, and net profits were...