Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mechanics who operate the institute's airline. Between missionary jobs, the line operates for a profit. It takes oilmen into the interior on charter, serves as a jungle feeder line for the Peruvian army's air transport. Rates are moderate, but in a year the S.I.L. can gross some $35,000 from charters. It needs the money, for this airline consists mostly of planes it did not pay for, and of pilots it does...
...prosecution and defense wound up their case, Feuillet's icy calm cracked in a flood of tears. Last week he was found guilty of "gross neglect" and "unscrupulous" behavior, sentenced to the maximum penalty under French law: two years in prison and a million francs ($2,500) fine. To the Stalinon victims and their families, the court awarded $1,533,000 in damages, but they were not likely to collect: both Feuillet and the owner of the pharmaceutical firm that manufactured Stalinon deny that they have the money...
Scores of companies set new sales and profit records, and so many others came close to old records that 1957 easily topped the peaks of '56. The gross national product increased another 5% to an alltime high of $436 billion. Industrial production edged up to a record average for the year of 144; employment reached an alltime peak of 67.2 million before dropping at year's end; corporate assets swelled to $229 billion. Wages continued to rise. The average hourly pay rose from $2.05 in January to $2.10 near year's end. Despite worry over the squeeze...
...Gold-Plated Recession. In a growth country, the predictions are for growth, despite a recession in the early months of 1958. The gross national product will probably rise at least $1 billion. Technically, the economy will "recede" or move sideways. But if recession is defined even in the mild terms of the 1953-54 slump, it will still be a gold-plated recession. At that time, gross national product dropped by $6.3 billion; industrial production dipped 15 points on the FRB's index, more than most economists foresee for 1958; unemployment then rose to 5% of the labor force...
...encouraging answer to critics who say the U.S. does not trade enough was the case of foreign automakers: they boldly invaded Detroit's home grounds, boosted their sales of small cars by 110% to 235.000. Beyond trade, world-minded businessmen, who once looked only at U.S. gross national product but now talk of ''gross world product." will keep up their record flow of capital abroad. In the past two years. U.S. overseas investments soared from $1.7 billion annually to $3.8 billion annually...