Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...railroads. Faced with over-regulation by the Interstate Commerce Commission and increasingly tough competition from trucks and airlines, they have not been able to earn the money they need to keep up the kind of service the U.S. expects and demands. In January, said Pennsylvania President James M. Symes, gross revenues slipped 15.5% from a year ago to $69.4 million, leaving the line with its third monthly deficit ($2,527,222) in a row. And to underscore the point last week, New Haven President George Alpert, who likes to fiddle to take his mind off his road's troubles...
SLUMP WILL END by fourth quarter of 1958, predicts Leon Keyserling, onetime chairman of President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers. Keyserling expects economic activity for final quarter to run 3½% faster than 1957 pace, and this year's gross national product to hit $437.7 billion v. last year's $433.9 billion, with large gains in personal-consumption expenditures (up $3.6 billion) and U.S. Government buying (up $1.6 billion...
...older folks." says he. "A teen-ager who has a date doesn't want to stay at home." Rhoden waves off major Hollywood productions ("Gary Grant won't sell teen-agers"), even throws out westerns unless they have a young cast. Result: his 1957 gross increased 18% over 1956; this year's is still growing...
From the top of the cliff, Gibson claims to have "the most profitable participating radio show in the U.S.," with gross billings of about $1,000,000 a year. For his erratic ramblings-some bright, some boring-he draws about $150,000 a year, a sizable chunk of which goes to his five ex-wives. "I have to take 800 bucks a week right off the top for the gals before I start paying for anything else." Nonetheless, Gibson is still an avid gallant. Says he: "I love women; it's only wives I have trouble with...
...Varner Steel Products' President R. G. Varner, who bought his first plane five years ago to spread out from Pine Bluff, Ark., selling his company's light steel pipe and other products. Says he: "In 1952 we did a gross business of $218,000. This year we are doing a gross business of almost $1,000,000, and we have extended our work into Canada, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas, Texas and Virginia...