Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the past year, the caretakers of this column have attempted to right wrongs, expose malfeasance, suggest reforms, edify their readers, and write an editorial for every paper. They have succeeded in their last aim to the utmost degree, often at the expense of gross distortion of the other aims. But, as the alert reader may have noticed, certain outside individuals and groups have been constantly at work, often unwillingly, always unwittingly, to provide continuity in the editorial page. It is to those individuals and groups that out thanks must go in the last editorial of this term...
...course, were the usual escape clauses. Nonetheless, continuing inspection was a seeming concession which five years ago would have been hailed with hope and cheers. But as of last week, when Soviet Russia's words without deeds no longer had the power to stir, U.S. Representative Ernest A. Gross dismissed it as "doubletalk without meaning...
...Poles Got Orders. Fortunately, King Coal's tyranny knows no Iron Curtain. Gross coal output is rising, especially in Red Poland, which has replaced Britain as Europe's No. 1 exporter (31 million tons in 1950). But the Russian war machine gulps more coal and steel than the U.S.S.R. can produce; to keep it rolling, the Reds are squeezing every bit of production they can get out of the satellite mines and mills. The Poles got orders to step up coal production by one-third. Hungarian playwrights and poets have been told to forget such themes as "love...
Ridge will just be a federal island within the South, unless we can add its research potential to our educational system." Soon, he had such men as President Frank P. Graham of the University of North Carolina and Dr. Paul Magnus Gross, vice president of Duke University, in the crusade with him. When the institute opened, it had 14 charter members willing to help support it, and gradually the number rose to 29. Through a central council and a board of directors these members manage the institute's affairs, share its Government-owned facilities. Says William Pollard: "We like...
With the possible exception of fine food, there is nothing that William Zeckendorf likes better than fine property. As boss and only stockholder of Manhattan's Webb & Knapp, Inc., he controls a gross $100 million in real estate. Through Webb & Knapp, 250-lb. Bill Zeckendorf has such varied holdings as 50,000 square feet on San Francisco's fashionable Nob Hill, a huge tract in Los Angeles, a jail in Boise, Idaho, Denver's Courthouse Square and sizable holdings in Manhattan. No deal is too big for Zeckendorf; it was he who assembled the land...