Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dollar Lines, continued Admiral Land, had not been suffering from a lack of business. From 1930 through 1937 it had gross revenues of more than $13.000,000 a year. But in the years from 1923 through June 1934, R. Stanley Dollar withdrew $2,526,501.22 as salary, J. Harold Dollar $1,081,693.62, H. L.Lorber $737,926.21 and Banker Herbert Fleishhacker $377,756.85. When R. Stanley Dollar bought five ships from the Government he took $281,225 as 5% commission...
...newly installed president; Milton I. Goldstein 3L, of St. Louis, vice-president; James A. Moore 3L, of California, Maryland, secretary; W. Walker Lewis, Jr., 3L, of Middletown, Ohio, treasurer; and Jerome C. Hofmayer 3L, director. Two second-year directors are Charles E. Schaaf, of Cambridge and Herman Gross, of Staten Island, New York...
...which befalls successful songwriters, of having money rain in from all sides-from royalties on shows, from the sale of shows to Hollywood and foreign countries, from sheet music, from gramophone records, from radio recitals, from having their music played by bands. On shows they get 6% of the gross, which means about $750 a week apiece if a show is a hit. Their biggest money-maker was The Girl Friend which played all over the world. In Hollywood they got $50,000 to $60,000 a movie. And from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), which...
Nevertheless, only a few U. S. publishers, network radio's chief competitors for advertising contracts, could be supposed last week to be sitting on an eight-month gross so large and comfortable as that enjoyed by the big three broadcasters...
...advertising in chosen areas by using small clumps of stations, who economize on talent costs by using recorded programs, who add to NBC and CBS advertising intensive MBS regional coverage, has as well a collection of sponsored shows which uses its full network. Their business has grown from a gross of $1,364,876 for 1935 to $2,269,078 for 1937. The first eight months of 1938 brought them $1,673,913 and contracts already signed for the last four months add up to some $909,200 more. With sales for the year still going strong, MBS already...