Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rise is typical of the railroads' wartime boom. The stream of freight to Southern industries and troops to & from Southern camps boosted L. & N.'s gross from $88 million in 1939 to $178 million for the first ten months of 1944. Net profits this year should run well over $15 million, double those of five years...
...Spirit." This spirit is compact of two things which Southern Californians love: 1) a gaudy, glittery Hollywood veneer; 2) a loud, high-pressure sales technique. Barker's had shown this spirit so effectively that last week, despite the acute wartime shortages of furniture, the company said its 1944 gross would be $15,500,000, the highest since...
Canella had tried to sell garbage, milk, laundry contracts. The dairy to which he gave the milk concession paid him 2% of its gross receipts. He had told Carl Mosk, owner of the post barber shop, that Mosk was making too much money and he "was going to have a cut off it or throw [Mosk] off the field...
...growers' fruit; the Supply Co. was formed to sell the packing associations box parts, nails, tissue-paper wraps, etc., at cost - i.e., by giving purchasers a share of the "profits." By 1943 the company was manufacturing insecticides and fertilizer as well as selling, and ended the year with gross sales of $13,111,753. With some of their own cash and substantial loans from local banks, they made a $4-million down pay ment on Westwood...
Father Day, rambunctious kingpin of Broadway's five-year-young Life with Father, fetched a record price to splutter in Technicolor for Warner Bros. Warners will give the owners (Mrs. Clarence Day, Producer Oscar Serlin, Dramatists Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse) $500,000 down and half the gross, cannot release Father before 1947, must obey the owners' Ten Commandments (sternest commandment: thou shalt not film any script of which we disapprove...