Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elected with the support of Communists and Peronistas, hailed as a man of the left, this cold realist soon concluded that he had to put an end to the labor featherbedding, price subsidizing and other self-indulgences institutionalized by Demagogue Juan Perón. Item: per capita gross national product had remained stationary for four years. Item: though Argentina ranked ninth in the world in oil reserves, the inefficient, 37-year-old national oil monopoly forced it to spend $300 million annually to import petroleum and refined products...
...Over the past 14 years, the Neo Gravure Printing Co. of Weehawken, N.J., which prints Sunday supplements for three New York papers and one in Boston, paid out $307,136.80 to preserve a truce with the Deliverers. Most of this went to Harold Gross, a convicted labor extortionist who runs a Teamster local in Miami, has been on Neo Gravure's payroll (together with four of his relatives) since 1945, after serving three years in the pen. But a share was slipped to a Longshoremen's Union official, Cornelius Noonan, who helped Gross engineer the shakedown...
Called to the witness table, Hauling Hoods Gross, Noonan, Bitz and 28 other witnesses pleaded the Fifth Amendment. But the record was already clear-and so was the lesson. Said Senator McClellan to the Times's Business Manager Amory Bradford: "It's a very sad commentary [when] one of the greatest publications in the country ... is subjected to a situation where the publication can absolutely be closed down unless they pay tribute." Moreover, the publishers did not succeed in purchasing peace: just last December, the Deliverers' union went on strike, kept New York's nine major...
...Gross U.S. Output Hits Record High...
Happily for their admirers, Phil and Mimi have remained unchanged by success. Says Phil: "We learned the routine in tough clubs. Why change?" There is obviously no reason to change anything at all-not even Mimi's teeth. Between them, Phil Ford and Mimi Hines expect to gross more than $150,000 in 1959, and, says Mimi, "without my teeth, I don't know what I'd do for laughs...