Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harold Gross, president of a Teamsters Local in Miami and a convicted extortionist, kept silent on testimony of other witnesses that he charged thousands of dollars to assure labor peace at a New Jersey commercial printing firm which turns...
...personal friendship without the usual treatment of religion as an embarrassing subject. As the result of such tiptoeing, "many Jews know only a grotesque caricature of Christianity, compounded of a three-headed divinity, salvation by being dipped in blood, a slighting of rationality and ethics, and a dependence on gross wonders." As Jews and Christians become closer friends, Chairman Sweazey hopes, "Christ will become better known and loved on both sides...
...Gross national product in the first quarter increased to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $465 billion, up from $453 billion in the fourth quarter last year, the President's Council of Economic Advisers reported in a preliminary estimate...
...York Times this week made public its annual report. The figures for 1958 confirmed the point made by the report for 1957 (TIME, May 5), i.e., that the Times is willing to make only a thin profit in the interest of producing a news-thick paper. On gross newspaper revenue of $85,576,162 in 1958, the Times netted $166,052-less than one-fifth of 1%. For the handful of public stockholders (some 200), the picture was not quite as grey as that figure indicated. The Spruce Falls Power & Paper Co. Ltd., in which the Times holds...
...have to bring home a whole ham to keep pace with the wage gains won by other unions. The United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther settled for a modest increase that poses no threat to steel's position as one of the best-paying big businesses. Steelworker gross earnings averaged $2.88 an hour last year, 35? better than autoworkers and 75? better than the average for all manufacturing; among production workers only bituminous coal miners ($3.02 an hour) and flat-glass workers ($2.91) averaged more...