Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chairmen handling shop discipline, foremen were free to supervise actual production. The company now has only one foreman for each 100 workers (v. one for 20 workers before unionization). Thanks to war orders - and lately expansion into new products - the dollar volume per worker (1,600) has tripled. The gross will be about $12,000,000 this year, v. $2,500,000 prewar...
George P. Denny '09, Walter S. Franklin '06, Robert S. Gross '19, Francis W. Hatch '19, Amory Houghton '21, R. Keith Lane '22, Jacob J. Kaplan '08, Dr. Oliver L. Loring '26,Thomas H. Mahoney '06, J Lawrence Pool '28, Clarence B. Randall '12, Joseph P. Sprang, Jr., '15, Lawrence Terry '22, George Whitney...
...June, was almost as much as the railroads had asked for in April. They had wanted a general 19.6% rate raise, enough to increase their annual revenues by $1 billion.' Since then the estimates of next year's freight traffic had increased. Now the railroads expect to gross the $1 billion with the 17.6% increase. If traffic holds up, and costs remain the same, the railroads expect to net $250,000,000 in 1947. (Without the increase, they estimated that they would lose...
...coffee dispenser is the latest gadget in the slot-machine industry, which has rapidly expanded to a jackpot gross of $500,000,000 a year. Automatic vendors now sell thousands of items, golf balls, perfume whiffs, laundry, toilet seat covers, insurance policies and hot dogs with mustard. In the offing are machines to sell 1) milk, butter, and ice cream in apartments, and 2) gasoline in automatic stations...
...prices (e.g., a pound of fish for 38?); 2) a soft-drink dispenser that will take as large a coin as a quarter, return 20? in change. In ten years, the happy gadgeteers expect the automatic vending industry to be one of the nation's top retailers, gross about $3 billion...