Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other cities, begin catering to 16 U.S. airlines. In San Antonio this week, he opens his newest airport restaurant, serving such Dobbs delicacies as rainbow trout cooked in almond sauce, and baked potatoes kept hot in metal foil. This year Jimmy Dobbs, 55, expects his airport restaurant gross to exceed...
...Jimmy Dobbs hammered back. He rounded up the smelliest bums he could find and sent them to Toddle Houses to eat during rush hours. By 1941, Toddle Houses had enough. It bought the 46 Dobbs Houses for $500,000. Hull decided to concentrate on car selling (the company will gross more than $50 million this year, net $2,500,000), and Dobbs moved into the airports...
Last week a House Armed Services subcommittee found the squawks justified. Though the armed services had shrunk about 85% since war's end, the stores were still doing a whopping business. During 1948 the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps operated 589 stores in the continental U.S., grossing $331 million at wholesale prices (at the normal retail markup, plus excise taxes, the gross would have been $500 million, or more...
...also ordered the armed services to: 1) abolish all commissaries by Jan. 1, wherever adequate civilian facilities are available; 2) cut out all special orders; 3) keep luxury items off the shelves. The three services agreed to do so. Estimated loss to the military stores: 50% of their gross business...
Since Gehring never grows mint on one field more than two years in a row, he is still a big potato grower-in fact, Indiana's biggest. His potato crop this year will gross an estimated $700,000. All told, his 5,800-acre farm, run like a factory, is a big business, with an annual payroll of $250,000, 350 workers, two $35,000 mint distilleries, 54 tractors and 150 buses, trucks, jeeps and other engines that weekly burn, in peak season, over 9,000 gallons of gasoline...