Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to turn out the new diesel and step up production of diesel-powered Caterpillars to grade roads, dig foundations, clear jungles and move mountains all over the world. With its new production Cat hopes to boost its sales, already the highest in its history. Last year, on a gross of $218 million, Cat reported a net profit of $13.7 million, nearly 40% over...
...facile workman, he is cheerfully accommodating when he has to turn out a new number overnight because an old one has been dropped from a show. But unlike most composers and authors, he refuses to lower his own high royalty rate (5% of gross receipts) when a show has begun to slump at the box office. A song generally takes shape in his head before he plays it or puts a word on paper, and a glazed look of creation may come over his face at any time of day or night-and at any place on earth...
...week. The houses were neat and trim but so much alike that the development had a barracks-like air. But looks made little difference. By the end of last year they had finished and rented 6,000 houses (Levittown's population is now 20,000), and their gross had jumped from 1947's $20 million to twice that. As big-scale production cut costs the Levitts decided they could give Levittown a slightly bigger house (25 by 32), with a lot of extra comforts, for $7,990. Originally they had planned to build only 2,500 of them...
...Gross Slander." Most Washington correspondents believed that Dean Acheson had been sincerely converted to a get-tough policy toward Russia. It was he who helped inspire, draft and put over the Greek-Turkish aid program. Before a Senate committee, Acheson charged: "Russian foreign policy is an aggressive and expanding one." Molotov protested that it was "gross slander ... inadmissible behavior . . . hostile," and was slapped down by George Marshall...
...Harvard in June 1947, Acheson first outlined the basic doctrine in a speech at Cleveland, Miss. Before returning to private law practice in July, Acheson charged that Moscow was blocking "the whole course of recovery and the international pursuit of happiness'." He was denounced in Pravda for "a gross and rude slander...