Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common man's President had died uncommonly wealthy. His executors assessed his gross estate, before expenses and taxes, at $1,940,999. Nearly half that amount he had inherited in stocks and bonds from his mother; another half-million was soundly liquid in bank accounts, additional securities and U.S. Treasury bonds. Hyde Park property (including $110,520 worth donated to the nation) and the famous stamp collection (auctioned for $212,847) were other principal assets...
California's mushrooming clothing industry had plenty to back all of this whoop and hurrah. Last year the industry (No. 4 in the state) did a business of $320,000,000, up almost 500% over 1939. This year it expects to gross $400,000,000, making it even with Chicago as the nation's second biggest fashion center. Some sunny Californians predict that California's dress business will zoom in a few years to a round billion, not far behind New York's, biggest in the world...
...first name: Gilbert), who last year was named No. 1 U.S. stylist by New York fashion critics. In his Ionic-columned salon in Beverly Hills, Adrian turns out $2 million worth of clothes a year. Yet he and the few other top-ranking stylists (e.g. Howard Greer, Orry-Kelly), gross only 5% of the industry's total...
...advertising bil to over $3 million. What Revlon expects in return, like all other figures in the industry, is a closely guarded secret. But largely on the sale of dollar lipsticks and 60? nail polishes which cost the makers about 10? to manufacture, Revlon this year will gross "well into the eight-figure bracket...
From then on business boomed. Kahn set up his own shop (Weatherman Co.), took on 80 employes. The U.S. Weather Bureau attested to the gadget's accuracy. Ships Service at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station ordered five gross. Other orders flocked in from as far afield as South Africa, South America, the Far East. At $1.69 apiece, the weather houses grossed $70,000 in 1942, $350,000 the next year, $800,000 last year. Production has reached a rate of 6,500 units...