Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stationed in Japan as a naval officer, and I found that the charm of Japanese women revealed American women to be what many of them really are: domineering, gross cows. Unfortunately, in this age of irrationality the "liberated" Japanese girls are now imitating American barbarians...
...prospective increase in U.S. production in the 1960s is almost as much as the combined current production of Europe's two fastest-growing industrial powers, the Soviet Union and West Germany. In 1960 the effect of increasing defense efforts plus rising capital investment will boost gross national product from $475 billion to an even $500 billion. By 1970, ten years later, U.S. production will have soared to $750 billion for the greatest growth in any decade in U.S. history. To U.S. consumers, the growth will mean $355 billion available in disposable income to spend on goods and services...
...them, but it cannot employ any other taxes not approved; thus Wagner, if he wants money to spend, must raise it in the way the legislature has prescribed. About half of the additional $125 million revenue will come from fairly straightforward increases in the taxes on the gross receipts of businesses and public utilities operating in the City...
Scarcely noticed in the long-swirling debate about how to achieve prosperity without inflation is the fact that since recession-shadowed early 1958 the U.S. economy has sensationally achieved just that (see chart). Last week Administration officials reported that the U.S.'s gross national product added up to an alltime record rate of $464 billion a year in the first quarter of 1959-a hefty $37 billion above the first quarter...
...decent Americans for sending them work in such sickening bad taste," wrote the London Observer's Critic C. A. Lejeune after seeing Hammer's Curse of Frankenstein. This hardly worried Colonel ("The King of Nausea") Carreras. Frankenstein's production cost: $270,000. Its worldwide gross: $7,500,000. Net profit for Hammer...