Word: rosses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...elected were Gerald A. Friedman '50, Samuel N. Seager '50, and Jonathan M. Spivak '50. New members are Richard R. Reynolds '51, James B. Ross, Jr. '51, and A. George Schumaker...
With competition in the U.S. television industry growing hotter by the day, manufacturers were cudgeling their brains for new ways to trim costs and prices. In Chicago, Admiral Corp.'s quick-stepping President Ross Siragusa thought he knew a good way to do it. On the big, fancy-looking console jobs, about one-third of the cost went into furniture. Why not start cutting there...
This week Dom was turning out 225 cabinets a day at one-half to one-third the cost of wooden ones. In them Brother Ross was installing 10-inch screen television sets. The price: $249.95, about $50 cheaper than the closest competitive model. Siragusa raised Admiral's 1949 production goal from 400,000 units to 500,000, planned to spend $1,000,000 this month alone in advertising...
Like those who know where to lay hands on Ambrose Bierce, Charley Ross or Judge Crater, there are people who turn up at irregular intervals with grandiose and intricate claims to large chunks of the U.S. Lawyers make money out of these things, and everybody else laughs. On the stage of Madrid's Teatro Martin one night recently, everybody laughed at "Lepe," Spain's favorite clown...
...Lepe, with thumbs hooked importantly in his vest: "Mr. Truman had better start paying rent or he will have to look for other lodgings." But Lepe's chances of turning out the President were not as good as his chances of finding the missing Ambrose Bierce, or Charley Ross or Judge Crater...