Word: expect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record 160,956. After years of losing money or just breaking even, it had made money from 1943 through 1946. But it had slipped into the red in its last fiscal year, chiefly because of heavy spending for promotion. It is continuing the spending, and "does not expect to turn the profit corner this year." Weeks knew that soaring paper and production costs might mean hard times ahead. But he hopes that the promotion splurge and the Atlantic's color (and photographs he plans to put on covers) will help it to hit 200,000 and bring in more...
...first week in the new store, Fred Lazarus was sure he had something. The week's gross: about $1,050,000. Lazarus could hardly expect business to stay as good as that, once the novelty wore off. But the mechanical gadgets are expected to boost the average yearly sales of clerks from 30% to 50% over stores of older design. Lazarus was sure that he could gross $24 million a year, 50% more than the old store's take...
First-Class Passage. The first postwar Rolls-Royces reached the U.S. The four Rolls and three Bentleys (also made by Rolls) will be exhibited in major U.S. cities. The British expect to sell $20,000,000 worth of the cars in the U.S. next year, can start deliveries early in 1948. The cars are equipped with electrically operated windows and airconditioning, range in price from...
...American Past is history gift-wrapped for readers who ordinarily find the subject unattractive. A picture story of U.S. politics and personalities from 1775 to 1945, the book is presumably (at $10) a carriage-trade item, but Publishers Simon and Schuster expect it to sell like crêpes suzettes...
...Other teams do not always bring bands with them when they come here," Bingham said, "and since more road games are coming up in the future, we can't expect the Band to make every trip...