Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greek and Turkish Cypriots into separate quarters. British Tommies man machine guns on the minarets of Turkish mosques. Cyprus' nightly lullaby is the baying of search dogs. When the sirens signal curfew, the island's economy is paralyzed (loss per day: about $120,000 of Cyprus' gross daily income of $290,000). Factories are closed for lack of labor and materials. But no sooner does the curfew lift than terrorists kill another victim...
...from the Alley. By plowing back money into research. Elox has grown from a back-alley business with sales of $194,563 in 1951 to a gross of $2,260,000 last year and earnings of $158,874. With a 90-day backlog of orders, the company expects to boost both gross and net in its current fiscal year...
Prosperity. "Last winter the Administration gave the private citizen and private enterprise a helping hand-not a federal wheelchair. Now the recession is rapidly running out. Personal income is at an alltime high. Last month unemployment dropped by 600,000. Gross farm income, per capita farm income, land values, farm ownership are up or at record highs. We should be able to keep the consumer price level stable over the next year-and isn't that great news for every family in America...
...mayors of 39 nearby communities gathered this week to break ground for an addition to Behlen Manufacturing Co. and pay their respects to its president, Walter Behlen, 53, a corn-belt Edison. Inventor Behlen, a man given to loud sport shirts and a pink Cadillac, made a gross profit of exactly $194 his first year in business in 1940; last year he earned $3,309,000 by ceaselessly following a simple inventor's rule: "Ideas are a dime a dozen-it's doing something with them that counts...
...everything from grain elevators to supermarkets and churches. The buildings can be raised by 20-man crews in two or three days. A Behlen supermarket including interior costs $7 per sq. ft., about half the cost of a conventional structure. With his bigger plant, Behlen expects to boost his gross from about $16 million this year to $25 million in 1959. But he deprecates his inventive skill, feels he only applied old principles to new uses. Says he: "Any engineer can design a complicated gadget that can't be produced. What we need are more engineers with simple minds...