Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gross national product for 1956 was more than $7.5 billion, up 12% from the previous record year. Production of most foodstuffs was up, with bumper crops of wheat, sugar and beans. Livestock production climbed 11% in 1956; fish nets bulged 48% fatter...
...bloom off Canada's durable boom? Although 6,000,000 Canadians, more than ever before, have jobs, and the gross national product seems sure this year to edge over 1956's record, some soft spots are appearing in an economy that is closely tied to the U.S. Cautioned the Bank of Nova Scotia: "The upward trend of Canadian business has in recent months been tapering...
...party . . . Stalin did what was necessary. We were sincere in the respect we expressed for Stalin when we stood crying at his bier." However, "we have lost many honest and devoted people . . . who were defamed and who suffered innocently. How can it happen that Stalin committed such gross and grave mistakes? This is a complicated question, comrades." But for so complicated a question, Khrushchev suggested a simple answer : "Stalin's personal shortcomings were taken advantage of" by the wicked Beria and his pal Comrade Malenkov...
...city's big discount houses went out of business in the past year. The shakeout is almost as severe in Los Angeles, Boston and Dallas, where dozens of small discounters have fallen by the wayside. A St. Louis discount house, H. E. Krisman & Co., pushed its gross to $3,500,000 annually-and lost $200,000 doing it. Says George Wasserman, owner of Washington's George's Warehouse: "The big ones are holding their own, but the little ones are going out of business as fast as they came...
...rockslides of revelation. On the very day of his first wife's death, this pillar of respectability, this devotee of reason, Arthur Winner, had embarked on an adulterous affair with Marjorie Penrose, wife of his crippled friend. In flashback ignominy, Winner relives their mute animal couplings, the gross infidelity of "two cheap sneaks." With this recollection the ordeal of Arthur Winner has begun...