Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meetings are part of a special effort on the part of the Student Employment Office to increase summer job opportunities. Last summer the gross income of students who secured jobs through the University was $55,000, compared to only...
...current rates or to find funds even if they can afford it. The discriminatory influence of the policy can be seen in relative amounts of recent investment: between the last quarter of 1954 and the second quarter of 1956, firms with assets over $100 million have increased their gross investment by 16.6 per cent, while the figure for firms with assets under one million dollars was only .7 per cent...
After surging up a powerful 23% in two years, Canada's gross national product is beginning to falter. G.N.P. for the second quarter of 1957 was just even with the first-quarter rate in dollars (but down a fraction in real terms), and government economists think third-quarter figures will show a further fractional setback. The leveling off of Canada's long-lived boom last week sent jitters from Toronto's Bay Street to Alberta's unseasonably snowbound prairies...
...Steady Starlets. Elvis, unworried, continues to live off what most parents would agree is the fat of teenagers' heads. As befits a solid citizen (possible 1957 gross: $1 million), he has lately eschewed fistfights and steady starlets, projected a 15-acre Elvis Presley Youth Foundation in Tupelo, Miss., his birthplace...
...rate of capital formation (i.e., reinvested savings) is easiest to express as a percentage of gross national product. On this basis the U.S. saves 17%, the same as France, and slightly more than Britain's 15%. But West Germany saves 22%, Canada 24%, Peru 21%, Austria 24%, Iceland 31%, Norway 29%, Israel 22%, Japan and Italy 20%, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 34%. On the other hand, Chile saves only 8%, the Philippines 7%, Indonesia 5%, and many other underdeveloped countries even less. A rule of thumb is that any country with a rising population must save...