Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During last month's income-tax jackpot period-the five days from March 16 to March 20-the U.S. Government collected more money than it was able to dredge up from all sources in the entire 83 years from 1789 through 1871. Gross Treasury receipts for the five days hit $5,583,000,000. During the 83 years-a period in which the U.S. fought the War of 1812, the Mexican War and the Civil War, made the Louisiana Purchase from France, bought Florida from Spain and purchased Alaska from Russia-the Government took in only...
...promising irons in the fire. Another General Dynamics subsidiary, Canadair, has the exclusive contract for building F-86 jet fighters in its Canada plant for the R.C.A.F. Since Canada has no excess-profits tax, this contract has proved so lucrative that Canadair alone contributed 70% of General Dynamics' gross of $134,500,000 last year (net: $4,900,000). Thus, Jay Hopkins, a man few know, has become boss of a major North American armament complex...
...Boeing, on a $739 million gross for 1952 (v. $337 million for 1951), netted $14 million, double its 1951 earnings. Backlog: $1.6 billion. ¶Lockheed's $438 million in sales for 1952 was up 85%, its net ($9,000,000 v. $5,700,000 for 1951) was up 56%. Backlog: $2 billion. ¶Glenn L. Martin Co., after losing $22 million in 1951, climbed into the black, netted $5,800,000 on a gross of $144 million. Backlog: $650 million...
...body tortured by the Nazis and her mind churning with memories of horror, upsets the placid routine of the two other patients in Room No. 5. Desperately intent on having her crippled body reshaped, she has neither understanding nor sympathy for the resignation of the paralyticThura or the gross self-indulgence of Fröken Nilsson, who has overeaten to the point where her broken leg cannot support her porcine body...
Sales Resistance. In Baltimore, while Insurance Agent Manuel Hyman was trying to sell him a policy covering losses from holdups, Liquor Store Proprietor William Gross was held up by three gunmen, still couldn't decide whether to buy a policy...