Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...building fund, a Wall Street banking group raised $11 million. The New York Central put up the land and with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad another $10 million more. (As a big New York Central stockholder, which now gets a yearly rental for the land on Park Ave., Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, grande dame of Manhattan's social world, will, in effect, be one of Connie Hilton's new landlords...
...Campaign. Though the new hotel's fame quickly spread, it has never been a big moneymaker. In its first ten years it lost $12 million. Last year, the Waldorf managed to net $657,981 on a gross of $18.7 million. But the profit percentage is slipping. For the first eight months of 1949, the Waldorf grossed $11.8 million, netted only...
...passing of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., the giant utility holding company now finally dissolved under the Holding Company Act. For years. C. & S.'s low price (generally about $5 ) and large amount of common shares outstanding (more than 33 million) had made it a volume leader on the big board and a rich source of commissions for brokers. C. & S. preferred and common stockholders will get shares in four utility companies, with a listed total of only 20 million common shares...
Most of the predictions were made with a big "if" predicated on the strikes. Midway through his nationwide tour to check up on the economy, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer cheerily reported: "Sales in the retail clothing lines and shoes have fallen off in the last two weeks . . . [But] unless the steel and coal strikes are prolonged . . . there is no reason why the recent upward trends in business should not continue...
...first meeting, some were barely decent. Last week. Joske's totted up results of the contest. In a month, $232,000 worth of Frigidaires had been sold-and 20 suits given out. Since the campaign started, Joske's has sold $750,000 worth, more than most big stores sell in a year...