Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fastest-growing nation in Europe and is rapidly changing the structure of its society. In the past six years, thousands of new enterprises have created hundreds of thousands of new jobs that have drawn millions of Spaniards from their pueblos to the cities. Foreign investment is coming in. Gross national product has soared 65% since 1960; per-capita income last year passed the mystical $500 dividing line that supposedly separates the "rich" nations from the "poor...
...Johnson's report on the state of the nation should be sanguine indeed. The economy is not only good but sensational-a fact underscored by the stock market's confident thrust toward the 1,000-point mark in the Dow-Jones industrial average and by the gross national product's one-year surge of $34 billion to an estimated level of $675 billion. Unemployment has practically reached such a rock bottom-at 4.1%, it is the lowest in more than eight years. The great American middle class, which constitutes about three-quarters of the nation, has never...
...lain for months like a dead cat at the door of the U.S. Senate. Few inside seemed in any rush to kick him away. True, the sharp, ferret-eyed kid who had left his native Pickens, S.C., at 14 to become a Senate page had been charged with gross impropriety for using his post as a Senate aide to become Washington's No. 1 influence peddler. But he had survived two sideshow investigations by the Democrat-packed Rules Committee, which was not anxious to strike down the man who had been Lyndon Johnson's prot...
...service scales, adequate for instructors but, at a maximum of $16,000, too low to keep top professors. Raided by the State University of New York and others, New Jersey last year made an exception and offered a few professors up to $24,000, but, insists Rutgers President Mason Gross, "we have just not been competitive...
...Louis has had the movie for 39 weeks; the gross there exceeds $600,000, while South Pacific, which played 45 weeks, made only $269,000. In city after city, house managers are proudly rounding up the names of fans who claim that they have seen the movie as many as 30 times. If it keeps up the pace, Sound is certain to break the all-time record now held by Gone With the Wind, which has earned more than $40 million in the U.S. in 25 years...