Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...housewives who used the product never knew that Birdseye (spelled Birds Eye on General Foods packages) was a man. But, they paid him the greater compliment of using frozen foods so enthusiastically that in 1955 the industry that Clarence Birdseye had pioneered for $7 soared to nearly $2 billion gross, shared by 1,551 companies* packaging some 2,000 brands...
...Three miles from downtown Baltimore, Maryland's Governor Theodore McKeldin axed the ribbon that opened Mondawmin (from the Indian name for corn field), a 46-acre, $15 million shopping center whose 47 stores, linked by graceful promenades on two levels, expect to gross $36 million...
...smell of traffic, their malls and walkways are bright with flowers, fountains, tropical birds. At Southdale the 82-acre shopping zone is insulated from suburban Minneapolis by a 240-acre office belt and a 176-acre lakefront residential section. Like Detroit's fabulously successful Northland center (first-year gross: $88 million), a number of the new projects are decked with sculpture and mosaics...
Mushrooming shopping centers have also spurred expansion of downtown stores. Shortly before the opening last month of Houston's $20 million Gulfgate, biggest shopping center in the South (anticipated first-year gross: $60 million), three floors of a four-story addition were completed at Foley Brothers, the only major Houston department store that has not opened a single suburban branch. Allied Stores Corp., which owns 32 department stores (Boston's Jordan Marsh Co., New York's Stern Bros.) in Eastern cities, is spending $250 million for expansion of shopping-center branches. Allied is also investing...
While not necessarily an advocate of "Republican prosperity" as opposed to "Democratic prosperity," I still must beg to differ with your economic views as propounded in your editorial of September 28. The writer, in pointing out the very true fact that the National Income or Gross National Product is made larger through debt financing, uses this fact to imply that: 1) our prosperity is a mirage; 2) the Republicans are to blame for the debt; and 3) that the Republicans are guilty of deceit in saying that this is an era of unmatched economic well-being. With these implications...