Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Upon examination, however, it is obvious that the admission price is both unfair and insulting to the Radcliffe freshmen. It is gross exploitation for the Key to make money on the poise, charm, and dancing ability of the girls who are the attraction for solvent Harvards. But this exploitation is nothing compared to the insult implicit in assessing at fifty cents an introduction to the girls possessing these gentle qualities. They would be cheap at twice the price...
...nylon ready for commercial production. Moreover, shrewd managers do not become complacent even when their profits, year after year, are large. The test is whether the company's profits are growing along with the industry trend. For example, Montgomery Ward's percentage of profit on its gross business always compares well with Sears, Roebuck's percentage. But the profits of Sears have grown far beyond Ward's because of Sear s vast increase in total business...
...restores the previous doctrine that insurance payable to named beneficiaries need not be included in the gross estate if the insured retains no incidents of ownership, and that premium payment is no longer considered an incident of ownership...
...September issue, FORTUNE gives the latest estimate of the state of the Ford Motor Co. Gross sales are running at an annual rate of $4 billion, profits at $15 million a month after taxes. In sales, Ford has pulled ahead of U.S. Steel, is running neck and neck with Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) for second place (after General Motors). Most of Ford's plants are new; the others are completely modernized. One-fourth of Ford's $1.5 billion postwar profits have been paid out in dividends. For one single year (1950) the Ford Foundation received a dividend check...
Television, which Skouras once called "the greatest enemy the film industry ever had," had also helped Hollywood in a backhanded way. By killing off the market for B pictures, it forced Hollywood to concentrate on bigger and better productions. This has paid off at the box office, where gross is running about 5% ahead of a year ago, and in moviemakers' net profits, which may reach the highest level since 1948. As a result, movie stocks have gone up faster in the past year than the Dow-Jones industrial average (see chart...