Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some small children. He is Eddie Constantine, 38, and he is currently wowing them from the Place de I'Etoile in Paris to the Canebière in Marseille with a hit movie, the latest of several hit records, and swoon-producing personal appearances. He expects to gross $600,000 this year, which is pretty good for a performer who only ten years ago could not have filled the Old Empire Beer Garden in Hoboken, with free beer thrown...
...they slid from the 1951 peak, farmers have fared much better than they did after World War I. In the two years after the farm peak of that war, gross farm income dropped 41% and the net fell 60%. More than four years after the war-induced peak of the World War II-Korean War era, farmers are still better off than they were in the late 19303. In 1940, with a gross income of $11 billion and a net of $4.3 billion, the farm-parity ratio (balancing what the farmer sells against what he buys...
...particularly in the Anglo-Saxon societies, death has become more and more 'unmentionable' as a natural process . . . Our great-grandparents were told that babies were found under gooseberry bushes or cabbages; our children are likely to be told that those who have passed on (fie! on the gross Anglo-Saxon monosyllable) are changed into flowers, or lie at rest in lovely gardens." The reason, says Gorer, is a shift away from religious belief in a life after death. "Belief in the future life, as taught in Christian doctrine, is very uncommon today, even in the minority who make...
...bring it in, Conoco, the seventh biggest integrated oil company in the U.S. in gross operating income, used a drilling platform that stands 50 feet above the water. It has a main deck measuring 220 ft. by 106 ft., supported by 24 steel pilings, each 300 feet long, that are rammed 150 feet into the ocean floor. It cost $1,500,000, weighs 1,600 tons (as much as a destroyer), has air-conditioned barracks, a TV set, a food-packed galley, a helicopter landing spot, and is the biggest offshore rig ever built. Said McCollum: "The cost was awful...
...McCollum, then 45 and production coordinator of giant Jersey Standard, gave him a fat stock option (which today shows a paper profit of upwards of $4,000,000), a salary of $125,000 and a free hand. Within eight years Conoco more than doubled its refinery capacity and its gross income ($500 million in 1954). It boosted the number of wells completed by 75%, built the first major offshore pipeline, and bought the largest interest in the giant Great Lakes pipeline. It leased nearly five times as much acreage as it had before, raised capital expenditures (primarily for wells...