Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rose in the Chamber last June to denounce the President for a series of articles he had written for the U.S. press (TIME, July 12), he was asking for real trouble. Under Argentina's battered constitution, members of Congress may be expelled by a two-thirds vote for "gross misconduct." Sammartino's Peronista enemies decided that "gross misconduct" included offenses against presidential dignity...
...huge (six engines, 230-foot wingspread) 6-36 bomber. But what made U.S. airlines take notice were the details which Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. released on a recent trip of its "flying cigar." The monster had taken off with the heaviest load ever lifted by an airplane (a gross weight of 300,000 Ibs.) and flown nonstop for 6,000 miles at more than 300 m.p.h. From San Diego, the ship went north to Seattle, back to San Diego, then to Fort Worth, north to Dayton and back to Fort Worth before it finally landed, more than 19 hours after...
...dropped $450 million to $705,013,000, a 39% decline. But the return has been worth the price. Though passenger traffic is off as much as 50% from its wartime peak, many streamliners are booked solid. In twelve months the Illinois Central Railroad's City of New Orleans grossed its $4,000,000 construction cost; with its sister streamliner, the Land 0' Corn, it had doubled Central's passenger revenues. The gleaming new Pullmans of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co.'s Texas Special are always 90% booked, compared to 60% for those they replaced. Even...
Jackpot. General Motors' second-quarter earnings were something. On sales of $1,145,000,000, the net profit was $110 million. For the half year, G.M.'s gross was up only 22% over 1947. But its net was up more than 50% ($4.55 per common share v. $2.97), thanks to higher prices and steadier operations...
...formula fixed by regulation: if a freighter of 5,000 gross tons or less is found to have more than five rats, it must undergo "de-ratization"; for ships over 5,000 tons, one rat is allowed for every 1,000 tons, with an outside limit of 20 rats. For passenger ships, quarantine officers make their own rules...