Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...establish a nation-wide league of U. S. cooperatives. It will run Greenbelt's general store, food and meat market, drugstore, cinemansion, barber shop, garage and milk route. Prices will not be much lower than elsewhere but, after the Government gets a small percentage of the gross receipts, profits will go back to Greenbeltians. Landlord of Greenbelt will still be the U. S. Federal Government. When the town is fully populated, its residents can decide whether or not they want its retail outlets...
...much stir in Winona until a Decca representative named Elvin T. Christman heard the boys last January. He took them to Chicago to make their first four recordings, became their manager and sold them to the St. Paul tavern for $155 a week (union scale) and 40% of the gross. By last week. Winona people were motoring 103 miles to St. Paul to see what they had missed at home. With the 25? admission to the Midway newly in effect, the band grossed $1,675 in July...
...spectacles of stern young John Hay ("Jock") Whitney-who, as a New York State racing commissioner, Jockey Club member, president of the American Thoroughbred Breeders Association and scion of a great U. S. turf family, typifies Saratoga's rich and formidable August colony-this seems a piece of gross misdoing. In the breakfast room of the gargantuan old Grand Union Hotel* last week he rose to address the convened National Association of State Racing Commissioners on this subject...
...production. Hookless' only worry is Japan, which has jumped into zippers and, despite a 66% tariff, can still undersell Hookless by 25% in the U. S. Last year Japan sold 26,000,000 zippers in the U. S. But Hookless has little to fear. FORTUNE estimated Hookless gross at $4,500,000 in 1931, and it is presumably over $6,000,000 now, with profits near $1,000,000. Total outstanding stock is only 3,906 shares and these are held by 145 persons. Last week this stock was valued at about $3,000 a share, when an announcement...
...these are professors at Columbia, Fordham, New York University. The rest are working newspapermen and assorted specialists. Rates range from 1½? a word for routine editing to 8? a word for articles on technical subjects requiring considerable research. They handle about 20 jobs a week and expect to gross about $100,000 this year. Their largest fee so far was $1,900 for the annual report of a corporation. Smallest was from a man in Panama who sent in a check for $5 asking for a brief and suitable expression for his daughter's wedding breakfast...