Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Larry Connell, a junior, will start for the j.v.'s at left end, while senior Art Hodges will be at left tackle and sophomore Tom Hill at left guard. Another sophomore, Jim Gross, will open at center...
...displaying such gross ignorance of the American scene ("Who is Elvis Presley?"-Sept. 17) Stevenson has disqualified himself for the presidency...
...part of his empire was plain: he needed cash. In seven years of fast dealing he had transformed Merritt-Chapman & Scott from an old-line marine construction and salvage company into a burgeoning industrial complex (paints, chemicals, steel, truck trailers, shipbuilding). Assets soared 138% to $239.5 million; the gross went up 800% to $360.3 million. But as the empire grew, so did its financial needs. Wolfson halved the regular annual $2 dividend last March to $1 plus a 6% stock dividend. He intended to save cash...
...moved up to vice president of Western Electric, after a three-year stint as vice president with the Chesapeake & Potomac and the Ohio Bell Telephone companies. CJ Orville Simpson Carpenter, 57, was elected president of the Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., one of the biggest U.S. natural-gas pipeline companies (gross annual revenue: $169,027,558). A certified public accountant and the former Texas State Auditor, Carpenter helped organize Texas Eastern in 1947 by purchasing the Big and Little Inch pipelines from the Government, three years later became its vice president...
First, may I ask why Mr. Norris did not use statistics generally available for 1955 and early 1956? If he decries the size and behavior of the public debt in 1954, should he not become apoplectic at its movement in 1955? In 1955 gross public and private debt increased $61 billion to $76 billion--more than ever before in a peacetime year...