Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this made businessmen cautious, though few were talking recession. The U.S. was turning out more goods than ever before; in the third quarter, the gross national product hit a new high annual rate of $256 billion, up $5.5 billion from the previous quarter...
...charges customers-which include Chambers of Commerce as well as big stores-according to the size of parade they want. For example, a 45-minute parade a mile long with 50 balloons runs around $4,500. Out of what he calls "this crazy business," Gros will gross around $200,000 this year, but, like most showmen, he refuses even to guess his net. Said he: "It's like a Broadway play. You run for months just to break even and count on those last two weeks for your profit...
Your November 27 story regarding the AVC Convention in Cleveland contained . . . one gross error. Your article reported that 11 New York chapters of AVC were ousted for supporting Wallace's opposition to the Marshall Plan. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The chapters were suspended (not ousted) because they had voted to seat, on a local council, an AVC member who had previously been suspended for appearing on a program of the American Labor Party as a representative of AVC, in contraversion of AVC's firm policy of political neutrality. Neither the Marshall Plan (which we support...
Even conservative, Finnish-born Jules Andre, a top ski clothes designer, was showing a fancy two-piece outfit. The mass manufacturers had also ducked up. Portland, Ore.'s White Stag Manufacturing Co., whose ski clothes had outsold all others for years (last year's gross: some $1,500,000), stepped out with a jazzy checkered suit (price...
...cost of a thorough investigation by competent experts has been estimated at $5000. An item this size should certainly be a worthwhile investment in a business venture which handles a $2,000,000 gross annual business, even if there is little chance of prospective increase in efficiency. The Dining Halls department has no competition, and consequently no incentive for betterment; a benevolent monopoly, above all other kinds of business organizations, should spend considerable sums on efficiency investigations...