Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest publisher of trade magazines and the fourth biggest U.S. magazine publisher* by carefully restricting its circulation. Newsstand sales, the lifeblood of most magazines, are not for McGraw-Hill, either. Last year although its 37 magazines made up two-thirds of McGraw-Hill's $62.5 million gross, it did not put a single one on newsstands. Nor do the seven McGraw-Hill bureaus and 46 part-time correspondents around the world cover the breaking news like other correspondents. In Korea, McGraw-Hill reporters pay little attention to battles; they are more interested in the performance of trucks and jeeps...
...First three after deducting commissions: TIME Inc., whose gross in 1952 was $156 million; Curtis Publishing Co. (Satevepost, Holiday, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman), an estimated $140 million; Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. (Woman's Home Companion, American Magazine, Collier's), $68 million...
Railroads. Baltimore & Ohio's net highballed to $10 million, $4,100,000 more than in 1951, despite a 6.93% drop in coal traffic. Santa Fe's gross revenues topped $600 million for the first time, but earnings fell $2,600,000 to $70.7 million...
...Standard Oil of New Jersey estimated that it would net $10 million less (about $518 million) than in 1951. Shell, with gross sales of $1,142,632,000, joined the select Billion Dollar Club for the first time, but its earnings fell 6% (to $90.9 million...
...power plants, 200,000 miles of new transmission lines, 15,000 additional miles of distribution lines, and a 500-mile pipeline from Arizona that added 300 million cubic feet of natural gas daily to P. G. & E.'s supply of 400 million cubic feet. As a result, gross revenues, only $92 million when Black took over, last year hit $300 million...