Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production because retailers delayed orders last spring, waiting for lower prices which never came. When the orders finally began pouring in, toy manufacturers, like everyone else, were slowed up by shortages of materials. As a result, the industry has scant hope of bettering its last year's gross of $250 million...
...first week in the new store, Fred Lazarus was sure he had something. The week's gross: about $1,050,000. Lazarus could hardly expect business to stay as good as that, once the novelty wore off. But the mechanical gadgets are expected to boost the average yearly sales of clerks from 30% to 50% over stores of older design. Lazarus was sure that he could gross $24 million a year, 50% more than the old store's take...
Schary likes to mix imagination with his economy, deftly stirs in social questions. Crossfire, a blunt and effective arraignment of antiSemitism, was made for $600,000, is expected to gross...
That was in 1935. In the years since, Myra has grown into a big girl, and the kind of children's recordings that Kapp started have grown into big business. There are now nearly twoscore companies making records for small fry. This year the industry may reach a gross of $20,000,000. Decca, with 100 albums now on the market, still leads the field...
...Saint Joan" publicized and played its way into the biggest hit in Harvard history. Its gross $5000 take smothered the simple if effective rival offering, "Waiting for Lefty," into a dusty corner, and the failure of a last-ditch HDC presentation of "Juno and the Paycock" didn't add any blue stars for prestige to that side of the ledger. Fat with its "Joan" power and profits, the Theatre Workshop bounded into 1947-48 like a herd of swollen gazelles...