Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Productivity sagged, and the gross national product stayed nearly stationary for ten years...
WASHINGTON, May 20--Fellow union chiefs today found Dave Beck guilty of "gross misuse of union funds entrusted to his care" and virtually read him out of the labor movement...
...worse unless industry assumes leadership in overcoming it. Labor Secretary James Mitchell estimates that to the 9,000,000 skilled workers in the U.S. must be added another 5,000,000 more skilled or semiskilled workers by 1965; otherwise the economy will fall short of the $560 billion gross national product expected in that year...
...down, Producer Sam Goldwyn got the film rights to George Gershwin's Negro folk opera Porgy and Bess. Gershwin's estate and other beneficiaries will get a straight 10% of the movie's gross receipts. Goldwyn, reportedly seeking Calypsinger Harry Belafonte to head an all-Negro cast, plans to release Porgy late next year...
Reach for the Sky, the most popular picture (gross: over $1,500,000) shown in England during 1956, is based on Paul Brickhill's lively biography (TIME, Aug. 2, 1954), and has Kenneth More-the bachelor in Genevieve-in the title role. Actor More, who is probably the world's ablest portrayer of damn-the-torpedoes extraversion, gives a cracking good imitation of a fighting nature that thrived in adversity. Yet the show, more or less, is More-or less. The script suffers from a kind of paraplegia of the narrative instinct, and the fly-stuff never gets...