Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demanded a 10% increase, but a recalcitrant House coalition, led by Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, would not yield without parallel cutbacks in Government outlays. Meanwhile, consumer prices were advancing at an annual rate of 4%, more than twice the average of the early '60s. The gross national product was bubbling toward the $850 billion level, up some $65 billion from last year. Interest rates soared. On top of a $20 billion-plus federal-budget deficit in the fiscal year ending this month, the new year was expected to bring as much as $30 billion...
...CATV is so useful, why the objections? Opponents argue that the CATV operators gross about $300 million a year (typical charge: $15 for installation, $5 a month service fee) but pay nothing to the people who originate the programming. In the view of the critics, this action is roughly comparable to reprinting somebody else's book without permission. To test the broadcasters' right to require payment from the cable firms, United Artists Television Inc. sued a West Virginia CATV company that had retransmitted to its subscribers several United Artists films and cartoons from three out-of-town channels...
...will feature a vast amusement park, an exhibition center, a race track and artificial lakes. The $20 million project, which is designed for the enjoyment of all the family, covers 630 acres. Estimates are that in the next twelve years the Exposition will draw 50 million people, gross some $330 million for the state-and in the process create a sizable boom for Sacramento...
...force of the beat." Crewe's three-floor Manhattan penthouse-decorated with mirrored ceilings, carved panels from the Indonesian pavilion at the New York World's Fair, and kangaroo-skin bedspreads-is also the nerve center for his group of eight production, publishing and management companies (1967 gross: $4,000,000), which he recently reorganized on the advice of his astrologer...
...James William Guercio, 22, is not only one of the youngest producers but also one of the most ambitious: he has already built up a Crewe-like cluster of companies in Los Angeles that may gross over $1,000,000 this year. On the strength of his composing, arranging, conducting and producing for The Buckinghams-five singles and two albums, all of which reached the charts-he recently signed a contract to develop new talent for Columbia Records. Guercio quit college "when John Kennedy died and the Beatles were born," went on the road with such groups as Chad & Jeremy...