Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week an official West German report to the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) demonstrated in part what Bulganin meant. On the basis of present trends, West Germany expects its gross national product to be 10% higher this year than last. West German industry will produce about 15% more, exports will be up by $880 million, total foreign trade by 20%. As a result, tax yields will increase 5%, enough to allow the government to plan reductions not only in consumer taxes but also in personal income taxes...
Holding his first annual cattle auction at his farm near Carthage, Tenn., Democratic Senator Albert Gore unloaded 51 females and four bulls for a tidy gross of $69,530. Observing the auction, Artist-Author Ludwig (Hotel Splendide) Bemelmans was so carried away by Miss Burgess of Marwood, a Black Angus yearling heifer, that he got her for $1,250. "She had such a kind face," Bemelmans explained, "I couldn't keep from buying her. I also liked the idea of keeping her for a pet, not raising her for slaughter." To put Miss Burgess up, Bemelmans will...
...million, 40-plane fleet of 415-m.p.h. Lockheed Electra turboprops similar to those recently ordered by American Airlines. Captain Eddie sat down with Lockheed President Robert Gross and signed an order for 40 Electras with an option on 30 more, each one to carry 66 passengers first-class, up to 91 air coach...
...most prominent North Carolinian in New York " Little was so pleased that he sent his car around tor Robinson, who ended up with an ad contract from the soap company In 8½ years, the News's circulation has risen 30% to 69,858. advertising revenues doubled, and gross yearly earnings (before taxes) increased from $900,000 to $2,200,000 enabling the paper to pay off its $1,000,000 debt...
...reader may see nothing in the book but slick self-pity and ears and eyes so gross and clumsy that they could not furnish credible continuity for a horror comic. But apart from its uproarious, if unintended, humor, the book has another significance. Author Fast's works offer an insight into the nature of the enemy. On that basis, Americans may reach the useful conclusion that the enemy is not so bright as is generally believed...