Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cheers for a nation which, ruined in 1945, can now double our annual gross national product increase rate. Erhard and Adenauer certainly should be applauded for making West Germany's Marktwirtschaft stand today as the strongest European bulwark against socialist pressures...
...York Journal-American's Jack O'Brian: "Crosby seemed to smile as if in constant pain. Closeups presented his face with a seemingly endless mouth and large lips which seemed to be pulled vertically apart as if with unseen strings." The Daily News's mild Ben Gross proposed that John "do something to control his twitching." The San Francisco Chronicle's Terrence O'Flaherty found him "nervous as an unprepared high-school valedictorian." And Variety spelled it out: "He forgot entire sentences and cues. He's far too deadpan. He has a tendency...
...Booming Recession. Getting down to specifics, the forecasts hardly looked like a "recession" at all. Prices will probably go up 1%. Gross private investment is expected to decline some 5%, and corporate profits will be lower: some $41 billion before taxes, or about 3% less than 1957. But gross national product will stay level at this year's record $439 billion, and industrial production, as measured by the Federal Reserve's index, will only slip 1.5% or 2%, a barely noticeable drop compared to the 5% or 6% decline the U.S. experienced during the so-called 1954 recession...
RAILROAD EARNINGS Though the Pennsy and Central gross more than any other U.S. railroad, their percentage of net profit is far less than other leading roads. Comparative 1956 figures for the nation's top ten roads...
...Harper's: the West is the Desert. Anybody at all familiar with the West is certainly aware of the importance of the Desert in shaping the lives of the inhabitants of the region, but to say the Desert is the only physical characteristic of the West is a gross over-simplification. Webb, who teaches at the University of Texas, has had his conception of the West shaped by the Great Plains, which served as the title of his greatest book...