Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Future Shylocks or Scrooge McDucks, however, will find their element on the business board with its $100,000 annual gross...
...Have You Seen Her Legs?" Matters reached a definite crisis last June 12, when the Randalls and Gross staged a brawl. Yolaine Randall claims that Sol kicked and beat her; Sol said his father-in-law pushed him around; Gross insisted that Sol had asked him for $15,000 as his price for a divorce. At any rate, a police radio car soon pulled up to the marquee of the Century. Sol lingered long enough to pick up two books for cell reading: a cookbook, and How to Make Marriage Successful. When he got outside, he found that his father...
...virtue out of his frustrations, pointing out the democratic problems in allocating costs for such things as airfields. "What should Norway pay for an airfield in Turkey? What should Italy pay for one in France? What should the U.S. pay? Would it be based on national income, the gross national product? The number of redheaded women? For 18 months the countries discussed it. Nobody got angry, but when the collection box was passed, nothing was put in it." The Russians would have had no patience with such democratic bickering, would have settled the problem by autocratic decree. But, points...
Three weeks ago, beset by the threats of strikes among Italy's teachers and civil servants, Premier Antonio Segni passed out an average raise of 12% to every civil servant-an annual total of $425 million. Compared to Italy's gross national product, this generous gesture was equivalent to raising the cost of government in the U.S. by $7 billion at one stroke. Everybody agrees that 1) Italian civil servants are underpaid, 2) Italy's 1,000,000-man bureaucracy is inefficient, cumbersome. Segni, before raising the pay, had had parliamentary permission to change the system...
...credit, said Wolfson, goes to Ward's President John A. Barr, who changed Ward's cautious, old-fashioned approach to selling, renovated hundreds of stores and laid plans to add 100 new catalogue-order offices, stepped up advertising, put new emphasis on installment selling. As a result, gross sales for 1955's final eleven months were up 10.1% to almost $1 billion, and are expected to grow even faster in 1956. Furthermore, the annual dividend was boosted from $3.50 to $4, plus a year-end extra...