Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painful but not yet critical adjustment from a decade in which a voracious, war-stimulated world appetite demanded all the food that the U.S. could produce at whatever price the buyer had to pay. Since 1951, when war demand pushed farm income close to its alltime peak, gross farm income in the U.S. has dropped 11%. Because the cost of what the farmers buy has gone up in that period, they have been caught in a squeeze that has pushed net farm income down 27%. But another factor has tended to ease the blow. As a result of technological improvements...
...little else. Only one production in London's Theatre Guide has the courage to announce that it is not wholly clews or comedy. It is the current intellectual necessity, Waiting for Godot, billed as a "tragicomedy." For the rest, Britons clearly like escape quite as much as the notoriously-gross Americans. Agatha Christic's Mousctrap has baited over 1000 audiences and shows no sign of closing...
...reached a record average in September-$71.55 take-home pay for a married man with two children, $1.25 more than the month before, nearly $5 more than in September 1954. Last week's figures included one serious cause for worry. Between the second and third quarters of 1955, gross farm income dropped at the rate of a billion a year below 1954's rate...
...Obesity and overweight are too often confused: a man may be overweight with muscle without being obese, or may have flabby fat on a small frame without being overweight. Without condoning "gross obesity," Dr. Keys could assign it "no more than some aggravating or accelerating influence...
...operations from seven to eleven states (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Wisconsin), McNamara was busy invading a twelfth; construction of three new supermarkets in Toledo will be completed next year. With sales running 10% ahead of last year. McNamara predicted a 1955 gross of $575 million. His next objective: sales of $1 billion...