Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been 12.5%. Also bullish: reports from Washington and from the American Bankers' Association convention in San Francisco last week that the worst of the credit squeeze appears to be over; forecasts by the Commerce Department that in 1967 capital spending will increase by a healthy 8% and the gross national product will expand by 4%, to $770 billion. Led upward by blue-chip issues, the Dow-Jones industrial average gained nearly 21 points, crossed the psychologically important 800 mark at midweek, and closed at 808-up 9% from the year's low of four weeks...
...among whites declined from 20.7% to 17.1%. The Government figures that if all Negroes could be brought up to the average white American's level of affluence, employment and education, the U.S. economy's output would climb by $27 billion a year, equal to 4% of the gross national product...
...years. There are, for example, almost 50 canons detailing the duties of bishops, only one on the rights of laymen in the church. When Father William DuBay* of Los Angeles charged two years ago that his bishop, James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre, should be removed from office on grounds of "gross malfeasance in office," he had no chance for an unbiased hearing under church law. Had DuBay followed canon-law procedure, his complaint would have been sent to Rome...
...lotions separately, added perfumes, and in 1915 dared to introduce New York to the mascara and eye shadow that she imported from France. In time, her cosmetics, some 300 varieties of which are sold today in 44 countries from South Africa to Tibet, became primarily responsible for a gross income estimated at well over $15 million a year; but it was in her salons, invariably marked by a red entrance door, that she created the basic Arden mystique by militantly advertising that "every woman has the right to be beautiful...
...labor force, thus aggravating the labor shortage. Sales of new 1967 model autos began so briskly that General Motors and Ford tacked on heavy Saturday overtime to lift production. The total economy, which cooled its feverish expansion during the second quarter, heated up again in the third quarter; gross national product rose by $13.6 billion, and corporate profits reached new highs (see box, following page). The Labor Department reported that consumer prices jumped by a substantial 0.3% in September, now stand 3½% above their level of a year ago. Higher clothing, housing and medical costs accounted for most...