Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...production costs $125,000,000 a year, of which 64% is for salaries. Producers have $100,000,000 invested in studios and equipment, employ 28,000. Theatre investment is $1,800,000,000. Exhibitors pay $255,000,000 a year in rentals, employ 236,500. Yearly gross for 15,378 theatres in the U. S. is $750,000,000. The industry pays $100,000,000 a year in taxes, $77,000,000 for advertising. In the U. S. between 75% and 85% of adult cinemaddicts buy tickets between 7:30 p. m. and 8:30 p. m. Average daily attendance...
...ever taken root in the United States. "America has no universities as we understand the term" he wrote, "the institutions so called being merely places for granting titular degrees." Taken literally this harsh judgment is undoubtedly false, and yet I venture to think that it is not a gross exaggeration of the situation which then existed. The new spirit moving within the educational institutions of this country had not become evident to those outside the academic walls. Another decade was to pass before a university was opened in Baltimore, national in its scope, and proclaiming boldly that "all departments...
Another room contains a couple of dozen typewriters, Western Union and Postal Telegraph press blank, and a dozen messengers ready at the beck and call of reporters who have been forced to reduce the gross poundage of learned papers to one readable story. The heads of the science departments of the three big wire services, the AP, the UP, and the INS, as well as three or four men from each Boston paper and from several other out of town papers, were also present. Science Service, an organization specializing in the gathering of all scientific news, sent a large fraction...
...Goldblatt boys sold newspapers, later got jobs as clerks in a Milwaukee Avenue store. In 1914, by the time elder Brother Morris was 21, they had saved up a few-hundred dollars to set up their own store at Chicago and Ashland Avenues. In 1915 they did $35,000 gross business, in 1920, $225,000, in 1925 $1.825,000 and pushed their profits to the $101,000 mark...
...Seattle Guild had 36 members in the Post-Intelligencer city room. Last month Publisher William Vaughn Tanner fired 225-lb. Head Photographer Frank ("Slim") Lynch and Dramacritic Everhardt Armstrong, active Guildmen. When the Guild protested, Publisher Tanner declared he had ousted the photographer for "inefficient management," the writer for "gross insubordination...