Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year his drug and cosmetic business should gross $24 million. Next year he expects to see it hit $36 million. But he yawns like an idle lily at the idea that his record is a rags-to-riches one. Says he: "The Alger story is a bore...
...pink-jowled Edwin Dagobert Bransome. No engineer, Bransome pulled the company out of a financial hole. It promptly earned a profit of $152,000, Vanadium's first in six years. By 1944 Bransome was able to report to his stock holders that Vanadium had cleared $459,00 on gross sales of $16 million...
...American Airways, pioneer on the international airways, was in a mood for fighting last week. In Washington, it chucked an indignant brief onto the Civil Aeronautics Board desk. Its charge: gross Government favoritism in granting Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. and American Airlines, Inc. postwar transatlantic routes. The protest was polite, but by mentioning Plane-Builder Howard Hughes, it left the door ajar enough to drag in T.W.A.'s president, jowly, hard-flying Jack Frye, and his friend, Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt...
...airlines, thanks to the planes they got back from the Army, were doing very well. The 16 major domestic lines upped their gross some 50% in the first five months this year, managed to up net profits to $8,617,000 from $5,666,000. Only two airlines, Colonial and Northeast, lost money...
...year, its profits were $25 million v. $21 million last year. More & more, it was apparent that the big slump, which many had expected to follow V-E day, had not occurred. Last week the Department of Commerce predicted that it would not occur this year. It estimated that gross national product in 1945 will be $199 billion, infinitesimally greater than 1944's annus mirabilis...