Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taxi drivers, barbers, grocery delivery girls and manicurists who do not spurn, but come to expect and even to exact the servant's tribute. Komsomolskaya Pravda told of barbers who "scalp" non-tippers to show them up as "cheapskates," and Izvestia reports that, since barbers share in the gross, half the barbers' income now comes from spraying overpriced Eau de Cologne on customers, thus raising their bill for a 2-ruble haircut to 10 rubles. Soviet Culture printed a cloakroom attendant's confession that on a good cold night he took in as much...
...small nation and had to accept foreign aid. Every day the idea is gaining force that eventually Panama should regain jurisdiction." What that meant precisely, he never said, but he did not want the canal itself for Panama. Instead, he would settle for a fifty-fifty split of gross canal revenue (fiscal 1958: $83 million). Boyd touched off last week's violence by entering the Canal Zone with a Panamanian flag, a cluster of followers and photographers...
...avoid the illusion that the economy is growing faster than it really is when prices are rising, the C.E.D. plotted the gross national product back to 1909 in terms of a "constant dollar" based on the value of the dollar in 1954, when it was considered comparatively stable. Only in this way, said C.E.D., is it possible to "answer such questions as whether our general growth rate has recently been higher, or lower, or about the same as in the past." The C.E.D.'s basic findings...
...Gross National Product. Since 1947, the nation's real gross national product has expanded at an average annual rate of 3.6%, a rate of growth that if sustained would double U.S. production in 22 years. This increase compares with an average rise of 2.9% for the 1909-57 period. Using 1954 dollars, the C.E.D. got a result substantially different from the Council of Economic Advisers' recent report that the G.N.P. rate in the third quarter of 1959 was $481 billion. In the C.E.D.'s 1954 dollars it was only $431 billion...
...Paris' big (14,000 sq. ft.) Ternes-Alimentation grocery store decided to try out the "American discovery" by spending $240,000 on a self-service system for their customers. It will be rewarded this year with estimated sales of $1,600,000, compared with a pre-modernization gross...