Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your article on Temple Fielding was very interesting, and he certainly is a charming man. However, when he reported in his 1969 Guide to Europe that my father, General Arthur McChrystal of the Bristol Hotel in Salzburg, had died, our family felt it was a "gross exaggeration." He is alive and working at the Bristol...
...book called Valley of the Dolls. Miss Susann's latest excitement is The Love Machine. A preposterously engaging sex-and-power fantasy targeted mainly at middle-aged females, The Love Machine is already nudging Portnoy's Complaint off the top of the bestseller lists, and should gross at least $2,000,000. In it, Miss Susann once again demonstrates her remarkable instinct for the varicose vein...
...following figures represent the yearly gross income that a family of four must earn in each area to get by on a "moderate" standard of living. The Labor Department figures, the latest available, are for the spring of 1967-and since then, consumer prices have jumped almost...
...cafeteria business that he sold for $50,000 in 1958. He then sank the proceeds into a modest Man hattan steak house. He redecorated it in dude-ranch western, renamed it the Cattleman, promoted it fiercely with various gimmicks, including free stage coach rides for the kiddies. The weekly gross quintupled, from $12,000 to $60,000, within a year and a half...
...years ago, Ellman decided to expand. For $250,000 he bought control of Longchamps, a New York restaurant chain. He incorporated the Cattleman into the chain, and began buying other restaurants, concentrating on decor. His catering empire now includes 115 restaurants in seven states, and will gross an estimated $75 million this year...