Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year. Poking quietly around the plants, talking directly to workers rather than through memos, Mason bolstered Nash with new models, jacked up dealers, cut Kelvinator prices, and streamlined production lines. By 1940, Nash-Kelvinator was in the black, where it has been ever since. Last year, on a gross of $478,697,891, greatest in its history, the company netted...
Automobiles. General Motors took in $10 billion, the highest gross ever attained by any corporation anywhere. After paying history's biggest tax bill-$1.2 billion-G.M. netted $598 million, 7% more than in 1952. Earnings of Studebaker, harassed by tooling troubles and supplier's strikes, skidded from $14.3 million to $2.7 million, though sales edged ahead to a record $594 million...
Steel. U.S. Steel, operating at 98.4% of capacity, upped its gross 23% to a new mark of $3.9 billion and its net 54% to $222 million. Crucible Steel's sales also reached an alltime high, but profits slipped 5% to $5.1 million...
...Standard Oil of Ohio struck it rich with a record gross, $336 million, and a 20% higher net, $21.2 million. Ohio Oil's sales rose 8%, its earnings 11% to $43.5 million...
Drumbeats and Song netted gross profits of $3,112 from this year's production, Joan Rubinstein '56, treasurer, announced yesterday. This is an increase of $212 over last year's receipts...