Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paid $30,000 for the book). Looking around for a director, Entrepreneur Rackin went to the best. "For the hell of it, I called John Ford." Before long, Director Ford, a Civil War buff, agreed to do the picture for a $200,000 flat fee plus 10% of the gross after the movie has earned back its production costs...
...According to Hollywood scuttlebutt, Gary Grant has turned the tables on Universal-International. Instead of taking a percentage from the studio for his current film, Operation Petticoat, Grant is said to have persuaded the studio to take a percentage from him (10% of the gross) while he produces the picture...
...Judged from the broad end of the picture tube, television had a bad year; its brightest moment shone like a candle in a morass of mediocre programs. But commercially, the industry seemed to be doing better than ever. Advertisers paid out a record $1.42 billion, a gross increase of 10% over 1957. By year's end the U.S. had a total of 512 operating TV stations (there were 495 at the end of 1957) catering to nearly 50 million TV receivers...
...point where he has become so good a hustler that only the biggest man in pool stands between him and the top. Minnesota Fats makes his headquarters at Bennington's in Chicago. In Eddie's world, Fats's name is spoken with reverence. Huge, lardy and gross. Fats plays with the grace of a virtuoso. Eddie takes him on, and for 40 hours they match their delicate skills. At one point Eddie is $18,000 ahead, and the great Fats seems to have met his master. But it is Eddie who cracks, turns to the bottle...
...Canada's recession was milder than the slump in the U.S. Except in the winter months, unemployment hit a smaller part of the working force in Canada. Industrial production sagged less sharply, recovered earlier. At year's end Canadians added up a new $32 billion record for Gross National Product...