Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no "raise" involved in the current TWA controversy. It concerns only the establishment of a pay scale for Constellations and DC-45, which have been flown only recently commercially. The Connies gross 32 ½ more tons than the DC-35 and are 100 miles an hour faster. We are earning for TWA 8co% more than the pay load of the DC-35. We are asking less than 1% of that added revenue for flying this heavier, faster, more productive equipment. The salary should be commensurate to the job performed...
...produced by Nelson L. Gross & Daniel Melnick) is the third of handsome Negro Choreographer Katherine Dunham's "revues" and, like her Tropical Revue and Carib Song, is really an evening of dancing. Miss Dunham has a well-nigh unapproached knowledge of the exotic dances of the West Indies and the Caribbean, which she has recreated in forms of her own. Bal Nègre offers a variety of them that, from a theater standpoint, seems badly lacking in variety. On its own terms, however, Bal Nègre often has a good deal of color and excitement...
...Besides, profits in flour-making are small (raw material accounts for 80 to 90% of the selling price). Milling one-sixth of all U.S. flour (twice as much as its nearest competitor) and processing one-fifth of all U.S. dry breakfast cereals, General Mills did a gross business of nearly $300 million last year. Yet, despite the best efforts of the Lone Ranger and Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, its net profit was only $7 million...
...shoulders, and the second hand of his timepiece, Harvard Hall is the most irritating bottle-neck of this exuberant academic era. But to him who stands aside to watch men and women queuing up for knowledge instead of nylons, the scene is full of delectation. Perhaps the show is gross deception; it may be a purely quantitative disequilibrium of supply and demand for wooden seats. Yet the illusion persists that there is a qualitative element slipped in, that a dwindling coefficient of wooden heads is a determinant in the equation...
Since the U.S. got out of the war and Leigh got out of the Navy, outdoor advertising has boomed again. This year the industry will do a record $100 million worth of business, and Leigh, with signs in 19 cities, will gross over $2 million. His signs now blow real smoke rings, show coffee cups that exude real steam, and a giant box of Super Suds that spouts 5,000 large bubbles a minute. Forthcoming are a three-story soda pop ad in which full glasses will effervesce real balloons, some of which will contain tickets entitling the holder...