Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood's moviemakers are only mildly interested in what the critics think are the "best" pictures of the year. The really important results of 1947, to cinemoguls, were published in Variety's jumbo-size (250 pp.) anniversary issue: the 75 pictures of 1947 which grossed (or are estimated to gross) $2,000,000 or better; the 45 top-grossing stars; the top grossers by studios...
...down from the alltime peak of 1946, but it was still far better than in any peacetime year. Some companies that had been on thin ice a few years ago were now on solid ground. Last week, Cartoonist Walt Disney reported that on his gross of $6,619,912 he had netted $307,075, his best ever. (He had not even taken into consideration $450,000 in blocked foreign earnings...
...gross national product (total goods and services produced) was $230 billion, 13% higher than the record peacetime peak of 1946. Like the New Look, some of the astronomical figures of dollar volume were not so impressive as they seemed. The rise in the gross national product was due in part to price rises. But in items turned out, 1947's industrial production was 23% above 1946's surprising total...
...most greyhounds, he has a short tail that curls up at the tip. But he has all the breed's other characteristics: uncanny hearing, remarkable eyesight, a not too highly developed sense of smell. His owner, Paul Sutherland, a 43-year-old ex-butcher from Tulsa, expects to gross $40,000 this year. Says he: "Like all good dogs . . . Beachcomber's got brains...
...equal to its fame. In 1941, the old King Street auction room was bombed out. In recent months the house has conducted its business rent-free in Lord Spencer's 18th Century house in St. James's Place. As overhead is low, the seven partners make a gross profit of over ?100,000 on an annual gross of ?1,000,000. British stocks in public companies usually pay no more than 6%. But Christie shares, all held by the partners, are estimated to yield 200% a year...