Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pause in the Eighth Army's pursuit in Korea (see below) underlined Lie's words. London eagerly approved; Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison declared that a "psychological moment" had arrived for a truce. Into this flurry of wishful activity Ambassador Ernest A. Gross, U.S. delegate to the U.N., dropped a timely reminder. "Peace efforts," he said, "thus far have been entirely from one side-the U.N. side...
...Walter Mack made everything clear. He announced that Phoenix Industries Corp., a Manhattan capital venture company of which he is now president and a substantial stockholder, had bought 90% control of Nedick's, Inc., which has a chain of 96 hot dog and orange drink stands, a gross of $10 million a year. Cost: $3,700,000. Mack also wanted to buy the controlling interest in National Power & Light, held by Electric Bond & Share, for roughly $1,000,000. He wanted to turn Nedick's management over to N.P. & L. and change the name to National Phoenix Industries...
Clay will speak at the last of the four conferences on "Mobilization and National Security." He will be joined by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. '24 and Ernest A. Gross, U. S. Deputy Representative to the U. N. This conference will take place July...
...session the French National Assembly voted, 414 to 177, over Communist opposition, to allot 743 billion francs ($2,115,000,000) to military expenditure in 1951. NATO officials calculated that, with other rearmament expenditures not shown in the budget, France would spend $2,600,000,000 (11% of the gross national product) on defense. A¶fter sitting on its hands for two months, Italy's Senate passed a new defense bill (TIME, March 19) to spend an additional 250 billion lire ($400 million) to modernize the nation's armed forces, bring them up to treaty strength. Communists...
...which Shaw thought would not be used), but by an improved version of an old-fashioned poison gas. As Shaw saw it, men will go onward & upward until they learn how to live on air, to get the same sensual pleasure from the pursuit of pure knowledge which their gross fathers got from the pursuit of other things, and finally to take leave of their bodies, becoming a species of intellectual angels. Then, a new race will develop, remarkably like the old, all set to start the whole business over again...