Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...associates, and Mrs. Kelley Coleman, clerk of the local circuit court (and Tom's cousin by marriage) had violated the 14th Amendment's equal protection and due process clauses. Last week the three-judge court in Montgomery upheld the Negroes' complaint, found Lowndes County guilty of "gross, systematic exclusion of members of the Negro race from jury duty." Though 80.7% of the county's 15,417 population is Negro, the court noted, "no Negro has ever served on a civil or criminal petit jury in Lowndes County...
since 1946 it has dropped from 134% of the gross national product to 46% , and from $1,900 per capita...
...company's sales of passenger planes crashed with them. Burdened with a $25 million bill for modifying Electras, which have since performed splendidly, and a $31 million loss on its ten-passenger executive JetStar, the company sank $42.9 million into the red in 1960. The next year, Bob Gross died of cancer and his brother moved up from president to chairman...
...lunging after every bit of new business. Often aerospace firms must risk millions of their own dollars on up to eight years of research just to stay in the race to build fewer, but costlier weapons. "We've become more sophisticated, more efficient and more competitive," says Courtlandt Gross. "We've had to -to survive. Our competitors are very alert, very wise, very hard-working." Among Lockheed's top competitors: - Boeing last year surged to the top of the 1,250 U.S. aerospace companies in sales (an estimated $2.1 billion) and profits (an estimated $77 million), thanks...
...article on the Nieman Fellowship program and Fellows written by Philip Ardery, suffers more than most such Crimson efforts from garbled facts, inaccurate reporting and erroneous conclusions. It is striking example of parajournalism at its worst, complete with neatly evoked atmosphere and gross factual errors...