Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Though Sav-Way is strictly a war baby, Saffady is unworried about the future. He expects to boost his gross another $1,500,000 this year to $6,000,000; he also expects to cut his prices so his net will remain the same, and thus save him the bother of renegotiation. At war's end he expects most of his present business to vanish. Then he will simply riffle through his inventions, decide which ones can be made easily in his plants. He will farm out the rest. But he has no intention of expanding beyond his present...
...wanted from Congress was a little piece of legislation guaranteeing Jahco 5% profit on gross war business, after taxes. (On this basis Jahco's 1944 profit would be $5,000,000, just 50 times Jahco's total worth...
...capacity and profit, came through with a surprising rise. Commonwealth & Southern rang up $12,312,000 v. $10,375,000 in 1942. But giant A.T. & T. had harder going. To boost its net some $13,000,000 to $177,769,000, it had to heave up its gross nearly...
...great mass of corporations, both in & out of war work, many failed to boost gross fast enough to outrace rising costs. Typically, F. W. Woolworth turned in an alltime high of $439,009,000 in sales. Burly, shrewd Charles Wurtz Deyo, 63, Woolworth's up-from-the-ranks president, who broke the 10?-top-price tradition back in 1932, found that this backbreaking upshove in gross was not enough. Woolworth profits sank to $21,952,000 v. $23,539,000 in 1942. General Electric fared little better. It announced a record volume...
Inconspicuously in the letter column of the New York World-Telegram appeared last week a letter from Red Cross recreation worker Ethel Gross Hopkins.*She had sent carbon copies to many a newspaper. The letter...