Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prince knows where he's at, and Superman is smoothly and competently staged. But while production seems to be all it takes to make a musical a hit, It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman! will have to take its place in musical history on gross receipts value alone...
Retaining 83-Brattle as undergraduate housing would ease the immediate housing crisis without causing the financial drain the College fears. If undergraduates were allowed to live in the building on a full room-and-board basis, the gross income to Radcliffe would far exceed the rent the college will collect from other tenants...
Robert Shaw gives us Caliban, "gaping with gross howls," Maeve Kinkead '68 sees "an ocean gone alizarin," and in Gavin Borden's poem, "An impartial breeze will window/cherished ashes from green, blown leaves." They manage to sound like poets, but the sound effects and tricky adjectives are stuck in for their own sakes, and not for the poem...
...personally owned Hughes Tool Co. on May 3 will sell 75% of the stock, or 6,584,937 shares, in the nation's second biggest airline (after United). If the pricing is anywhere near last week's N.Y. Stock Exchange close of $80.37½, Hughes will gross well over $500 million. In Wall Street's record books, the secondary offering will rank behind only the Ford Foundation's $658 million sale of Ford stock ten years ago. Hughes stands to net about $400 million on his original investment of some $90 million in TWA. What will...
Ironically, the surge in imports results from the exuberance of the U.S. economy. When the total national output of goods and services grows by 5% a year, Government analysts figure that imports increase at the same pace. When gross national product swells at a rate of 8% to 9% a year, as it did in the last three months of 1965, then such is the increase in buying power that imports grow twice as fast. In the fourth quarter, they shot up 17½% and Commerce experts predict that performance will continue through 1966. As a result, the U.S. trade...