Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like 10% of the gross...
...Increased, in the House, stationery, postage and telephone allowances for Representatives, despite some fiery denunciations by Iowa Dollar Watcher H. R. Gross. The Representatives voted themselves a $600 increase in stationery allowance (to $2,400 per year), an extra $100 a year for airmail and special-delivery stamps, and an 11% increase in telegraph and long-distance-telephone allowances. Republican Gross failed in his efforts to force roll-call votes, but did set off some verbal fireworks. After a scathing attack by the lowan on congressional spending, including junkets abroad, North Carolina Democrat Harold D. Cooley snapped: "You sit back...
...call him Hollywood's No. 1 tailor would be to insult him by suggesting that there could possibly be a No. 2 Hollywood tailor. He gets about $50 a stitch, because his label, in Hollywood, signifies incomparable status. When a star gets into the 10%-of-the-gross category, he is ready for Sy Devore...
...market will therefore stand the hikes. This is all the more remarkable because the current business expansion is now 32 months old and should, by all the textbooks, be growing weary. Though previous postwar recoveries have petered out after an average of 36 months, Washington expects that the gross national product will rise $10 billion or so in this year's fourth quarter, to a record $595 billion; the Bank of America forecasts a $611 billion figure by next June...
...other Ivy League schools are equally skeptical, their policies could easily "set a match to the tinder box" of Superintendent Calvin Gross's recent proposal to initiate gradeless high schools in New York City, Glimp said...