Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canada's gross national product is now running 11% above the record set in 1953. Even at its present high rate, the output does not meet the demand. There are shortages of steel and cement for domestic use, and of newsprint, chemicals and metals for eager foreign customers...
Curtice refuses to talk in percentages of the car market-talks instead in terms of the expanding gross national product. "We have 3% of the G.N.P. now, and we won't have any less than 3% in 1956," he says. Translating into automobile figures, he predicts 1956 U.S. auto production at 7,060,000 (plus 1,190,000 trucks) -down about a million from 1955. G.M.'s share, if it holds its own, will be 3,500,000 cars...
Since 1940, the population of the U.S. has gone up 26%, from 132 million to 166 million. In the same period, the annual gross national product has been pushed up 286%, from $101.4 billion to $391.5 billion. Such a massive increase in goods and services might seem to be enough to take care of the increased population, but a third factor makes a difference. Since 1940, personal income in the U.S. has risen a spectacular 293%, from $78.3 billion to $307.5 billion...
CHRISTMAS-CARD BOOM will break all records this year, says the National Association of Greeting Card Publishers, who predict a gross of $175 million on 2 billion cards...
Herbert H. Gross. Eliot; PBH; Hasty Pudding theatricals; House athletics...