Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economy's strength and a firm prediction of its renewed growth. The President's yearly Economic Report, drafted with the help of his Council of Economic Advisers, reiterated that 1957 was a year of record-setting prosperity. Total industrial output equaled the 1956 record. Gross national product ($434 billion) and total personal income '($343 billion) surpassed 1956 levels by 5%. At midyear the employment total stood at a new record high of 67.2 million, and the last quarter's "moderate" decline still left employment at 64.4 million, a higher mark than the U.S. reached...
Slight, pink-cheeked Robert E. Gross, board chairman of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. (prime contractor on the Navy Polaris), registered the common complaint that Government agencies, bureaus, committees, staffs and boards interfere with quick and able decisionmaking. Contractors, he declared, are "bogged down in a labyrinth of advisers advising advisers ... We are often 'helped to death' by the hierarchy of Government agencies." Conflict-of-interest statutes defeat the Government's opportunities to hire the most able civilians for key posts. "We really cannot ask people to come down to Washington as experts for a problem as long...
...bright Girl with Mirror; San Francisco's Frank Ashley for his lively #12 Adler (see color page): Manhattan's Louis Bouché for his quiet Still Life with Blocks; Westchester County's Edmond Fitzgerald for his ashcan-ish My Studio; Manhattan's Sidney Gross for his abstract Promontory; Brooklyn's Joan Starwood for her abstract Fugue in Blue-Green; and Manhattan's Erne Joseph for his abstract Intersectional. The sculpture winners: Peter Abate of Brookline, Mass, for. his tamely symbolic marble Beginning of Life; Arnold Geissbuhler of Manhattan for a bronze Bird, whose cock...
AIRLINE JET PILOT'S pay will climb to $26,800 a year. First U.S. jet-age contract, signed by National Airlines and Air Line Pilots Association, sets figure as top gross pay for senior captain of four-jet Douglas DC-8 (v. $21,600 for piston-engine...
When she was eleven, Margaret Bilotti, stage-struck elder daughter of a Manhattan construction worker, collaborated with another East Side youngster in writing a play, the proceeds to buy Christmas toys for underprivileged children (gross take from ticket sale: "over $2"). Soon afterward an uncle noticed that as Margie sat on a hassock she looked crooked, and her right shoulder blade protruded. The family doctor prescribed a corset, which soon broke and was discarded. Eventually a neighborhood hospital referred the Bilottis to one of the few places in Manhattan that specialize in treating conditions like Margie's, the Hospital...