Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grounding off Bermuda: in referring to certain passengers' proceeding by alternative .routes to the United Kingdom, you stated [July 22] that the third-class passengers who asked for air passages were told that they could go ahead-at their own expense. This, we would mention, is a gross inaccuracy, as all passengers, first, cabin and third, were informed that alternative means of transportation would be secured for them if they so wished and that this would be entirely at the expense of this company. By far the greater percentage of passengers who did avail themselves of this offer were...
...record-breaking 100 "specials" (the new regime's replacement for Pat Weaver's word "spectacular"), an increase of 15% over last year. The special shows, at least 26 of which will be in color, account for about 117 hours of programing and a whopping $40 million in gross billings. John (Pajama Game) Raitt will join Mary Martin in Annie Get Your Gun; Van Johnson is set to play The Pied Piper of Hamelin; and Mickey Rooney brings his cultivated ham to Pinocchio. Maurice Evans will produce and star in Twelfth Night and Dial M for Murder for Hallmark...
...economy since the end of 1954, appears to be slowing; expenditures for new plants and equipment this year are rising at a slower rate. Home construction is dillydallying along at lower levels, and economists foresee no strong upturn in the near future. While the dollar growth in gross national product sets new peaks each quarter, inflation now accounts for more than half of each advance. Much of the increase in personal income, which continues to set new records each month, is also offset by higher price levels. The. experts believe that people may develop a resistance to industry...
Whatever the official pronouncements, the overall economy seemed in a remarkably healthy state. Employment set a new record in July, and unemployment dropped. The Gross National Product reached an annual rate of $434.5 billion in the second quarter, $5 billion above the first quarter and $23.5 billion above the same period in 1956. Personal income for July rose to a record $345.5 billion, is running 6% ahead of 1956 for the first seven months. Businessmen feel that business will remain good: the majority of 205 industrial concerns polled by the National Industrial Conference Board look for larger dollar value...
Aircraft Co. for $60 million worth of big turboprops for 1960 delivery. Flying Tiger Boss Robert W. Prescott will soon tell stockholders that company's domestic cargo operations will go into the black this year for the first time in its twelve-year history, and line will gross $40 million in fiscal 1958 v. $24 million in past fiscal year...