Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AUTO DEALERS are in the red this year for first time, says National Automobile Dealers Association. Gross profits in first quarter averaged $831 per car, but selling expenses (overhead, salesmen's bonuses, etc.) jumped to $877. Result: average dealer lost...
Actor-Businessman William Holden, who handcuffed Columbia Pictures to what seemed a historically profitable contract for his part in The Bridge on the River Kwai, last week felt the contract's manacles snapping around his own wrists. Signing on for 10% of the gross, Holden, to keep taxes down, forced Columbia to add a clause providing payment in sums not exceeding $50,000 a year. So far, so shrewd-but Kwai has already grossed $8,500,000, is expected to end up with at least $25 million; 40-year-old Bill Holden will not be fully paid until...
...know what was the state of mind in the cities the Vice President was to visit. For what has happened should never have been allowed to happen and those who are responsible for the management of our relations with South America must answer to the charge of gross incompetence. We must fix and we must correct the causes that led our officials into this fiasco -into what it would not be exaggeration to call a diplomatic Pearl Harbor...
Another hate-building emotion that the U.S. cannot do much about is Latin American embarrassment over the political immaturity shown in the frequency of revolutions. Another is envy, and although the U.S. can help, it cannot bring the economic millennium full-blown to Latin American nations, raising their combined gross national product fourfold to the U.S. level...
...first quarter, the Commerce Department reported last week, the gross national product fell by $10.6 billion to an annual rate of $442 billion, the lowest point since the third quarter of 1956. It is expected to decline even more in the current quarter...