Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take is staggering. An average slot machine, the committee estimated, clears $50 a week; a mobster who has placed 200 slots, a comparatively modest effort, can assure himself a gross of $5.000 a week. One of the eight big policy wheels in the Negro section of Chicago netted $1,000,000 a year. A gambling casino in New Jersey cleared $255,271 in a good year, one in Florida, $205,000. Tony Giz-zo, a mobster in Kansas City, admitted that his little newsstand handbook netted him more than $100,000 a year. In all, the committee estimated "conservatively...
...cities, it is the police captains who wax rich. In New York, police officials began resigning in droves when a bookmaker named Harry Gross threatened to sing (TIME, Feb. 5). In Philadelphia, one witness testified that the bag man for Police Captain Vincent Elwell came into the station house each month with his pockets bulging, that the total take amounted to $152,000 a month for the city's 38 districts...
...shot almost as fast as the cameras can turn. No one in Hollywood grinds out quickies at a greater pace or profit than 41-year-old Robert Lippert, who, in his 6 years as a producer, has made 60 pictures at a total cost of $3,800,000. Gross: about $10 million...
...picture on space ships (Rocketship X M) in time to sop up the publicity being lavished on the then forthcoming Destination Moon. He beat every other studio to the Korean war with The Steel Helmet (now doing well enough to promise a $2,000,000 gross). Lippert prefers not to say what Helmet cost, while he is still selling it to exhibitors who dislike paying big rentals for quickies...
...Ohio Highway Patrol weighing station checked 6,700 trucks (not 4,000), and 203 (not 356) were in violation of the so-called legal load limit. This constitutes a 3% violation (not 9%) . . .Of the 3% accused of violations, almost all were for uncontrollable axle weights, and not for gross overweight . . . The great majority of Ohio's truck operators are opposed to all violations of the state's highway laws, regardless of their inequity...