Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rock-'n'-roll movie was having on Britain's notorious teen-age delinquents, the Teddy Boys. Scarcely a week goes by without some headline proclaiming the latest exploits of the "Teds.'' But nothing before had sparked them to the frenzy induced by the gross tick-tock of Rock Around the Clock...
...demonstrated their approval of Republican candidates in San Francisco last week, a flurry of blue-lettered "I Like Ike" paper caps danced before the television cameras. The man behind the caps is not a politician, but a hamburger king-Edgar Waldo ("Billy") Ingram of the White Castle System (1955 gross...
...sold), Ingram knew that he had at least one political party under his cap in 1956. This, combined with his newest creation, a visored French Foreign Legion type, scheduled to make its debut at fall football games, prompts Ingram to predict that his sideline will sell 50 million caps, gross...
Hecht-Lancaster's last five pictures, including Marty, which won four Academy Awards, are expected to gross $42 million (on a $7,343,000 investment). The partners' deal with United Artists, which releases their films, gives them 70% to 85% of the profits. Since 1947 Hecht and Lancaster have produced eleven films-all box-office successes. They already have impressive plans for spending $40 million in the next three years...
...Retail sales are running at the rate of $16.6 billion a year, 23% higher than the 1952 level (see The Luxury Market). But savings are also climbing. Individual savings accounts grew fatter by $5 billion in first-quarter 1956, the fastest rate of gain since the Korean war. The gross national product, sum of all goods and services produced in the U.S., was barreling along at the annual rate of $408 billion in June, seems certain to top the $400 billion mark this year for the first time in history. Since June 1952, when the G.N.P. reached only $345 billion...