Word: grosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national Aircraft Women's Club, whose merchandising potency so impressed Los Angeles' big Barker Bros.' home-furnishings store that it established six free clubhouses for chapter members. Still on the inside track, McKinnon figures that his three papers ought to considerably fatten up the $500,000 gross he made last year with only...
...there is scarcely enough to keep a family alive. A third meal a day should not be taxed away, or nearly so. (3) It has the worst elements of a sales tax. The five per cent rate is not graduated according to income. (4) It is a tax on gross income with no deductions allowed of any kind, such as heavy hospital expenses. (5) Nor does it act as an incentive to decrease consumption, as the Treasury's spending tax does. Yet it has two commendable provisions, the post war "kick-back" of forty per cent of the amount...
...arrived from Richmond, had to assume Beauregard's knowledge of the country since he had none himself. Beauregard worked until 4:30 a.m. on an order for attack which Freeman calls "a gloomy instance of the manner in which . . . the ignorance of a commanding officer may be as gross as that of the men and infinitely more expensive in blood and misery...
Five months ago WPB ordered all large units in the stove industry to stop producing stoves and start producing nothing but war goods by July 31, leaving all stove production (on a standardized "victory model" basis) to companies which formerly had less than a $2,000,000 annual gross. Now their gross is still smaller: for lack of materials only about half a dozen of 150-odd smaller companies are now making victory stoves at all. When last counted (late in July) there were some 2,000,000 stoves or about six months' normal supply still in retail stocks...
...painting. He takes over the studio and the wife (Doris Dudley) of a piteous fellow painter (Steve Geray). Later he leaves the wife to suicide, and heads for Tahiti where he marries a sleek young native with a Mona Grable smile (Elena Verdugo), slaps out masterpieces by the gross, dies (lingeringly) of leprosy...