Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uniform, has passed less than half of the enabling legislation for rearmament. And the conscription bill has been so often delayed that final passage is not expected before fall. ¶ Though the most prosperous country in Europe, West Germany has refused to contribute more than 5.5% of its swelling gross national product to its own defense. Britain, despite inflationary troubles, contributes 10.1%, the U.S. 11.6%. ¶ Despite its failure to build its own army, West Germany, in the person of pfennig-pinching Finance Minister Fritz Schaffer, for months refused flatly to continue its cash contributions to the support of Allied...
...MERGER is under way between Owens-Illinois Glass Co. and National Container Corp., both giants in packaging. Plan calls for exchange of one share of National common stock for one share of Owens preferred plus one-fourth share of common stock. In 1955, two companies had combined $466 million gross...
...call Sigmund Freud a philosopher, in the true sense of the word, is a gross misnomer. A philosopher is one who examines the ultimate causes, principles, and reasons for man's existence. To construct a philosophy on Freudian principles would lead to a reductio ad absurdum to end all reductios...
...Consolidated Uranium Mines Inc. He said that Consolidated had 85,000 acres of uranium land leases and had discovered $1,000,000 worth of uranium ore on only three of these acres. His salesmen grandly put Consolidated's net worth at $85 million, said the company's gross would jump 10% yearly and the stock would sell at up to $20 a share in a few years...
...Gross' studies of community-school relations in New England have raised considerable interest. When at Iowa State College, he made studies of farm areas and of the farmer's acceptance of new technological developments, such as hybrid corn...