Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strong Markets." In Washington, another chief executive watched all this and happily brought forth some statistics of his own. Looking like a prosperous chairman of the board, Lyndon Johnson began his first formal TV press conference by announcing that the gross national product had scored its highest year-to-year gain in two years, rising $8.5 billion during the first quarter to an annual rate of $608.5 billion. Progress was being made in cutting back unemployment, and labor had gained more than 4,000,000 jobs since early 1961. Johnson did not mention it, but the Federal Reserve just...
...First Volley Sir: In your article on Cyprus [March 20], you state that "the latest battle began when Greeks fought Turks with bazookas," etc. This is a gross distortion of fact. The incident in Paphos to which you refer happened when the Turks started firing from a minaret near the market square at the milling crowd. ANDREAS FRANCOS Embassy of Cyprus Washington...
...Common Market was concerned, Franco began to reform Spain's backward economy. Many rigid state controls on prices and production were abolished, and foreign investors began priming the Hispanic pump. Spain's annual industrial output climbed at a rate of 11% a year; gross national income rose at 6% to a record $13 billion last year. Gold and foreign-currency reserves, a paltry $65 million five years ago, now total $1.2 billion...
...Gross Nat'l Product¹ $572 bill. $607 bill...
Violence finally erupted in 1951, when unemployed slum dwellers in Martinique staged ugly riots that left three dead and scores injured. France quickly poured in more money, by last year had boosted its annual aid to $135 million, 40% of the islands' gross national product. There is still occasional unrest. Last year police picked up 18 Martiniquans who were involved in a half-baked secessionist plot to overthrow the local government. However, the great majority of islanders are strongly Gaullist in their politics and are well aware that French aid is their only realistic hope of raising living standards...