Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only because of a technicality. The contract she had signed was with Arthur Murray, Inc., a New York enterprise, the Manhattan mother studio of Arthur Murray and Kathryn, his wife. Although Murray picks all the local studio managers, who operate under a franchise, and takes 10% of their gross receipts, each studio is a separate entity for legal liability purposes...
...longer will the weighty 'Cliffies be able to sign up for fruity, calorie-free desserts. It seems that in the past there has always been either too much, or too little, fruit at Radcliffe. Whether we have to thank the abstention of the lean or the greed of the gross for this situation it is not clear...
...Gross national product in 1957 was $8.2 billion, up 10% from the previous year. Cost of living grew along with it, but wages more than kept up (see chart...
Berrrand Russell was fit to be tied. "British authorities," he wrote to the Times of London, had committed a "gross discourtesy" by "subjecting a man of great intellectual eminence to insult at the hands of ignorant officials." The man: U.S. Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Linus Pauling, a colleague of Philosopher Russell in opposition to nuclear bomb tests. The Home Office-which considers that visitor non grata who takes part in meetings against government policy-had refused Pauling permission to stay in England < past Sept. 16, precluding his appearance before a meeting of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. What's more...
...plans to make slingshots. Since then they have added three dozen other toys and gadgets to their production, now employ 670. Last year they hit their first jackpot with a lightweight plastic platter, the "frisbee." They have already sold about 2,000,000 Hula Hoops (93? wholesale, a 16% gross profit), hope to sell millions more before the craze dies...