Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bought 1,000 acres of farmland near Lind, Wash., leased an additional 5,000 acres with an option to buy. Last week 23 members of the Bruderhof who went ahead to take over the new land were bringing in their first grain harvest. Pincher Creek's President Paul Gross was delighted with the results...
...Pincher Creek colonists were already eating vegetables from their Washington farm, looking forward to harvests of apples, cherries, raspberries, peaches and grapes. Even more gratifying to Gross was the welcome their new neighbors extended: "People from the Methodist, Mennonite and Lutheran churches came to visit us. They were very kind. There has been no objection against us whatever...
Guerrilla Warfare. Though Dior made headlines by dropping hemlines, he has made his fortune with the help of clever merchandising and Boussac backing. He branched into perfume, sports clothes, stockings, opened New York and Venezuelan branches to make high-priced ready-to-wear dresses (Dior's 1955 gross: $18 million). Today there are eight wholly owned Christian Dior companies and 16 firms that make Dior products under franchise...
...cardinal rules of journalism is consistency. But in the writers' dash for the most copy in the least amount of time, gross errors have been spotted. There is no definite count of the number of times Williams spat at the crowd. The number ranges between two and four. Tax experts are not sure whether he can or can not deduct the fine from his income tax return. The New York Herald Tribune quotes a tax expert as saying that the assessment could be deducted since it is not a league penalty. But the United Press came out quoting a different...
...long tons (2,240 Ibs.) a ship can carry when fully loaded. Other ways of sizing up a ship: displacement tonnage, internationally used to measure naval vessels, is figured by computing the weight of sea water (35 cu. ft. weighs one long ton) a ship displaces when loaded: gross registered tonnage, usually used to measure passenger liners, is a nautical monstrosity, arrived at by computing the total enclosed space on the ship in cubic feet and dividing by 100 to get the tonnage. One deadweight ton equals approximately 1.5 gross tons for most ships...