Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year gross sales of Lipton's tea in the U. S. were $6,496,437, on which the U. S. company made $466,406. Profits had been doubled since 1934. For the first four months of 1937 Thomas J. Lipton, Inc. shows a net profit of $321,598, which the company deprecates as the usual seasonal business is always followed by a decline in the last half of the year. One thing Sir George Schuster did on his tie-strengthening visit was to approve a $1,000,000 Lipton advertising campaign, biggest since 1929, planned by husky, friendly...
...last resort it is expected that they will file claims for the cost of gasoline for the squad cars, for one gross of tear gas bombs, one book entitled "How to Break Up a Riot," and two broken policemen's clubs...
Sued. John Daniel Miller Hamilton, 45, Republican National Chairman: by Mrs. Laura Hall Hamilton; for separate maintenance for herself, Son Daniel, 20 (a University of Kansas freshman) and Daughter Laura, 12; in Topeka. Kans. Grounds: "gross neglect of duty, abandonment and extreme cruelty...
...bankers' profits, Banker Hall said ruefully: "Today the market is full of recent bond issues contracted for in the hope of realizing gross profits of 2½% or less and now quoted at 5 to 10 points below their offering prices. ... In other words the profits are limited but the losses are not."As for criticism of banker directors, Banker Hall was frankly "puzzled." He held no brief for greedy managements or "corporate kidnapping." But he had found from experience that the "majority of companies are governed with a conscientious desire to do the right thing for the companies...
Ships. At the close of 1936 there were 867 U. S. and Canadian steamers, motorships and barges with a combined tonnage of 3,323,105 gross tons plying the Great Lakes. During the season they transported 50,200,666 net tons of ore, 44,699,443 tons of coal, 7,433,967 tons of grain and 12,080,672 tons of limestone to and from lake ports. From Duluth, Superior, Escanaba, they brought ore to the mills of Gary, South Chicago and Cleveland, to Ashtabula and Conneaut to be transshipped by rail to Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Bethlehem. Reloading at Toledo...