Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canada never had it so good. The Bureau of Statistics reported last week that Canadians earned more dollars, produced and consumed more goods and services in April, May and June than in any other quarter in history; gross national production for 1956 was headed for a record-smashing $29.5 billion-a handsome $2.8 billion above last year (and equal to a per capita rate...
...president of New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (TIME, April 26, 1954), is going into new form of transportation. With group of Boston backers, Dumaine has picked up Richard S. Robie's Avis Rent-A-Car System, with 1,044 locations in U.S. and abroad and gross of $35 million a year...
With the turning of the leaves and the rapid approach of the gridiron season, familiar grumblings about the system of ticket distribution again highlight dinner tabletalk. The old bruhaha continues to evoke undergraduate gripes and groans, most complainers failing to realize why they must bear the gross inconvenience of requesting their billets two weeks in advance...
...free-world foreign market in airborne electronics, i.e., equipment for navigation, instrument landing, flight direction, automatic piloting, weather radar. His equipment operates along the U.S.'s and Canada's far northern Distant Early Warning (DEW) line. His young company, which grew from a gross of $722,000 in 1940 to $123 million in fiscal 1956, has bounced radio beams off the moon, shot a high-frequency TV beam 800 miles around the curvature of the earth to bring man closer to the goal of transoceanic television (TIME, May 19, 1952), developed a wingless aircraft, the "Aerodyne" (TIME...
...profit last year, expects a 10% boost this year. The small (792 miles) D. & H. is also in good shape; through the Delaware & Hudson holding company it picked up 34% of its traffic, mostly from its own coal mines, netted $8,900,000 last year on a gross of $76.9 million. Only the 962-mile Lackawanna is in any semblance of trouble; a $7,500,000 flood-damage bill and heavy losses from its commuters (who fondly call it the "Delay, Linger & Wait," but appreciate its on-time trains) helped drag the road to a $1,000,000 deficit last...