Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down to the peso" accounting of his assets before entering office Dec. 1 and again upon leaving it. For Mexico he promised only a smooth bossing of the current combination of state and private enterprise. If he does as well as Incumbent Ruiz Cortines (who has seen the gross national product rise 40% and so far has ridden out the U.S. recession with scarcely a dip), Mexicans will be satisfied...
...affronts. In Moscow, an obviously stage-managed mob milled around the U.S. embassy for three hours, yelling insults and shaking fists. Russian fighter planes forced down a strayed U.S. Air Force transport plane south of the Caucasus Mountains, took the nine crewmen captive, charged the U.S. with a "gross" and "deliberate" violation of Soviet airspace. And stubborn foot-dragging met U.S. efforts to get back nine other U.S. servicemen who landed in East Germany in early June after their helicopter got off course on a training flight...
...pass through both the St. Lawrence River and the Welland Canal, a ship would be charged 6? for each gross registered ton, plus 42? for each short ton (2,000 Ibs.) of bulk cargo and 95? a ton for general cargo. A modern C-2 freighter carrying 4,000 tons of bulk cargo (ore, grain, pulpwood. scrap) and 4,000 tons of packaged merchandise would pay $5,955 for a one-way passage; a profitless trip in ballast would cost only $475 in tolls...
...steel, lumber, apparel, aircraft, petroleum were all on the upgrade. The FRB index of production, which rose a point in May, will probably be up another point for June, said FORTUNE. "Together, these gains add up to an all-around recovery." FORTUNE'S predictions through 1959: the gross national product will rise $50 billion to $470 billion by the end of 1959, while production will jump 20 points from 128 last quarter to 148 on FRB's index. Both will be new records, "with a wider margin in G.N.P. over past peaks owing to great and steady expansion...
...Gross Product $287 mill. $1.2 bill...