Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JACK GROSS...
...their feelings and affections in making judgments; they are addicted to "straying from the path of wisdom." Women are biased and incompetent, while men are balanced, impartial, self-controlled. Sons of the Prophet who have been yielding to the demands of women, said Al Azhar, are guilty of "gross violation of Allah's Book and His Prophet's teachings...
...cream he could eat) at the age of 12. He didn't enter another until he lost his job in 1930 and needed money. He quickly won a Ford, $1,000 in cash and $4,000 in merchandise. Today, his 1,400 students and a bimonthly contest newsletter gross him more than $75,000 a year...
Never has the U.S. spent so much on advertising as it did in 1951. Last week Printers' Ink published the estimated total: $6,496,500,000, nearly 14% more than in 1950, but not quite in step with the 15% increase in the nation's gross national product...
...those 50 years, air conditioning, which was once considered a luxury, has become standard practice. In the last ten years, Carrier Corp., which is the biggest industrial conditioner and has about 15% of the home market, has quadrupled its gross to $80 million, and tripled its net to $3.6 million. President Wampler, 57, thinks that is only the beginning. In the next ten years, said he last week, air-conditioning sales should more than double; the number of houses having single-room air conditioners should increase tenfold to about 5,000,000. Said Wampler: Man will forget "the day when...