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Word: grosse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industries has in some ways produced a more favorable climate for the small concern. Since the small operator can often turn out a better product, big companies find it is economical to subcontract as much work as possible. General Electric Co. pays out nearly half its sales volume (1955 gross: more than $3 billion) to 42,000 subcontractors and suppliers, 90% of them small businesses. RCA closed a Camden (N.J.) transformer plant because small electronics manufacturers produced better components...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMALL BUSINESS: Needed: Talent, Training & Tax Cuts | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...gross national product soared to a record-smashing rate of $413 billion in the third quarter, some $4.7 billion higher than during the second quarter, the President's Council of Economic Advisers reported last week. The general increase in business was reflected in third-quarter earnings. Despite the steel strike, many a company reported record profits; only a few were down, and few of those were seriously hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Strong & Steady | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...Rehabilitation Administration, which wanted to fly food and medicine into China. But last week, as Chennault's Civil Air Transport got ready to celebrate its tenth anniversary, few airmen would recognize the old line. Chennault's bedraggled CAT had become a plump, purring creature with a gross of more than $20 million annually and a reputation as the Far East's best airline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Domesticated Tiger | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...lineup today from left end to right end will be Larry Connell, Joe George, Don Hill, Jim Gross, Bob Foster, Art Hodges, and Warren Puff. Ron Johannson will be at quarterback, Mickey Maguire at left half, Tom Lawson at right half, and Tony Marlowe at fullback...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J.V. Football Team Plays Indians Today | 10/26/1956 | See Source »

...roster of University presidents since John T. Kirkland, who died in 1810 (James Walker and Thomas Hill, the exceptions, repose elsewhere); and most important, we remained untouched by Mount Auburn's natural beauty which others have so enjoyed. No Euripides, no Ernest Hemingway. We just couldn't appreciate this gross slyvan glade speckled with gray Victorian masonry that the prospectus so proudly called "the City of the Dead." But then it was raining pretty hard.Edwin Booth, legendary figure of the American stage, lies not far from Spruce...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Tombs, Trees and Corporate Profits | 10/24/1956 | See Source »

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