Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rich-quick lure and the fascination of working out "the perfect system," playing the pools has be come a national gamble that keeps families all over Britain busy for hours each week. It has also become big business the seventh largest in Britain. The football pools now gross $150 million a year, account for 10% of the nation's mail, 60% of its money orders, and are largely responsible for the post office being one of the few government agencies to operate in the black...
...morale improved so much that the T.P. & W.'s employees were the only railroaders in Illinois who did not walk out on the "sickness" strike last year. Now entirely dieselized with 15 new locomotives, the T.P. & W. has one of the best transportation ratios (cost to gross revenue) in the U.S.; last year it was 22% v. a 36% national average. T.P. & W. also gets more freight mileage out of its diesels (11,000 miles apiece per month) than almost every other railroad. Once-scornful railroaders have a new description of the Tired, Poor & Weary: "Trim, Peppy & Wealthy...
...earned a small fortune: in 1949-50, her biggest year, her gross was $250,000. During her years in the White House she gave all her earnings to charity. She still contributes heavily. But although she is a wealthy woman, having inherited more than $1,000,000 from the Roosevelt estate, she tries frugally to preserve her capital. Her trip to India was no exception: she did not undertake it until Harper & Brothers had agreed to publish a book of her impressions and thus, in effect, underwrite her expenses...
...touring Don Juan has already piled up gross profits of more than $1,000,000. When it was interrupted three months ago to let the cast do some movie acting, Charles Laughton went off on a solo tour, to give readings from the Bible, Aesop and Dickens. Six weeks later he pocketed $90,000 of the $164,000 gross. Laughton says complacently: "Contrary to what I'd been told in the entertainment industry, people everywhere have a common shy hunger for literature...
...hold of a boomerang. Taxes threatened to take more than half his profits. But he soon thought up a real taxeroo. He now forms a new company to handle each new toy he brings out (e.g., rocker toys, toy typewriters, the Charles Eames TOY), thus keeps his overall gross in the lowest corporate income-tax brackets. In addition to the Chicago parent, Tigrett Enterprises, Inc., he now runs seven toy companies...