Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clerk had barely begun to drone when Minority Whip Leslie Arends of Illinois leaped up and demanded a quorum count, which includes a full roll call of the House. McCormack had to comply. The count ate up half an hour. It was hardly finished when Iowa Republican H. R. Gross asked for another. And so it went all afternoon and into the night. Majority Leader Carl Albert accused the opposition of filibustering. Tempers frazzled, blood pressures rose, and the House stayed dead center until McCormack at last agreed to ask for only four bills. When the session ended...
...Works Committee, a modified version of the Administration's highway beautification program (see MODERN LIVING). > Approved, in the House Public Works Committee, an omnibus rivers and harbors bill authorizing $1.9 billion for 144 projects, ranging from a $15 million flood-control system in Iowa Republican Representative H. R. Gross's home town of Waterloo to an $83 million initial grant for dredging Texas' Trinity River so that Dallas and Fort Worth might become seaports...
Sophisticated & Mobile. Introduced in supermarkets in volume 15 years ago, stamps have been a source of controversy ever since. They proved to be remarkable promotions for the grocers who offered them first; they more than made up in increased business for the 2% of gross sales that they cost. As more stores stocked stamps, however, the competitive advantage vanished-while the fixed cost of stamps remained. Says Waldbaum's Supermarkets President Ira Waldbaum, whose 62 New York stores, along with the 100-store Daitch-Shopwell Supermarkets, dropped stamps last month: "We found that the cost of stamps was becoming...
...more that doctors learn about head injuries, the more concerned they are that not nearly enough is being done to protect accident victims from the long-lasting, possibly paralyzing or fatal effects of insidious brain damage. The main reason is that gross injuries to the brain often go undetected and even unsuspected...
...this year are Gunsmoke's Ken (Festus) Curtis and Milburn (Doc) Stone, who drew 225,000 fans in a week at Billings, Mont. (pop. 62,000) and, at the Kitsap County (Wash.) Fair-with the local impresario's job riding on the outcome-doubled the best previous gross. "We'll be singing and jawing at each other and having a time as big as my foot," announces Festus as they reach each town. Which means declining nary a radio interview and likely, after the show, laying a plank across a couple of sawhorses to sign autographs...