Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slump in textiles (TIME, Aug. 30), he was beginning to find it difficult to sell some of his products. Although Textron's net profits have jumped to $3,805,000 in the first half of 1948, from $2,841,835 in the same period last year, its current gross sales, running at a rate of $100 million, were off $25 million from 1947. Little thought next year would bring a further decline. To see him through the leaner years ahead, he was concentrating on his Textron brand name products, shutting down his money-losing sidelines. Few textile men thought...
...shih . . . According to your article he sells his pictures for a dollar. Knowing a bargain when I hear about one in the art market, I sent him $1 cash . . . and today the picture really arrived, a traditional Chinese brush painting of a pair of shrimps. His calligraphy is gross but his figures are sensitive and beautiful...
...seven highest-paid physicians in the U.S. last year were specialists, the magazine Medical Economics reported this week. The seven had gross incomes up to $180,000, net incomes (after paying for offices, etc.) up to $96,000. From 1943 to 1947, net incomes of all physicians rose 14% (net income of all gainfully employed persons rose 32%). As a profession, medicine looked well paid: physicians were in the top 3% income bracket; 2.8% of them grossed $50,000 or more. Average income of all doctors was $18,500 gross...
Aircraft. The balm of $46,563,685 in defense orders, said Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s Robert E. Gross, had turned his company's postwar deficits into a $5,310,151 profit for the first six months of 1948. To see it through the rest of the year, Lockheed had a $196,421,000 backlog, most of it in military orders...
...never before. The river's 6,600 boat-barge fleet has grown 20% since prewar, and this year will haul an estimated 150 million tons of freight (enough to fill 57,000 freight trains of 50 cars each). At an average $1.50 a ton, that means a record gross of some $225 million...