Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make small reductions in the cost of handling the average transaction, but the smaller sales volume resulted in percentages of operating expenses to sales which were considerably higher than those for any other year covered by the Harvard studies. These higher rates of expense were accompanied by rates of gross margin slightly smaller than those achieved in 1930; so that earnings were substantially reduced...
...Department stores with sales of $2,000,000 or more on the average last year incurred expenses including interest on capital owned amounting to 36 per cent of sales. Gross margin, on the other hand, was only 33.2 per cent of sales, so that these department stores last year commonly earned 2 per cent on net worth. Specialty stores with sales. of $2,000,000 or more reported a smaller net loss on their merchandising operations, 1.7 per cent of sales, but a smaller final net gain on net worth, 1.6 per cent. The smaller department stores and specialty stores...
Postal Telegraph bonds, of which some $50,000,000 are outstanding, last week sold at 15¢ on the $1 against a 1932 high of 39¢. In 1931 the company had its gross business fall only 8% against the total drop of 16% in U. S. telegraph business but its cable and wireless business was off sharply...
Last week Postal's parent, International Telephone & Telegraph, made its 1931 report. Salient points: 1) Net income: $7,654,000 against $13,750,000. 2) Telephones in the system provided 59% of the gross revenue, increased from 688,000 to 769,000. Of the gain 50,000 was from acquisition of the Rumanian system. 3) I. T. & T.'s telephone business is distributed as follows: South America, 534%, Asia, 3.2%, Europe, 27.9%, North America (Mexico) 7.8%, West Indies...
...cite another example of this gross unfairness, the writer through a personal interview with Miss Berkman has discovered that she is on a hunger strike for the purpose of focusing attention on her present position. Yet the information given out is to the effect that being a consumptive, she is on a "special diet," which, of course, obviates all beneficial results to Miss Berkman and greatly damages the sincerity of her cause in the eyes of the public. The facts in the Berkman case are too well known to repeat, but it seems that anyone who is acquainted with them...