Word: grosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threw U.S. railroads into a frenzy by suggesting that they forego the 6% freight-rate increase which ICC recently granted them on ten key commodities (lumber, cement, petroleum products, pig iron, etc.). OPA further hinted that, if rail revenue (in January, gross revenues were 27%, net income 30% above 1941) continues up, it would request ICC to revoke the rate increase entirely...
...Japan's successes have taken a 7% slice out of the U.S. cinema industry's already shaky foreign market; in normal times, gross film rentals from Japan, China, the East Indies and Straits Settlements amount to almost $6,000,000 (Java alone: $1,500,000). In Australia and New Zealand, 14% more of the industry's foreign revenue is at stake...
...reducing its prices to the U.S. Navy (despite fixed-price contracts), it gave up some $10,000,000; 2) by setting up a $5,000,000 charge against earnings, it made provision for "going out of war production." Even so, United earned $16,721,000, or 5.4% on gross sales of $307,152,000 (v. $15,443,000, or 12.2% on $126,058,000 last year), after a whopping tax bill...
...Canada) blanket, and apply only to widely used and acutely scarce products; 2) that any ceilings imposed take account of the time lag between retailers' buying and selling periods. If ceilings are placed at both the wholesale and the retail level as of the same date, retailers see gross unfairness to all of their members, bankruptcy for some of the weaker ones who buy hand to mouth-i.e., late and high...
...World War I, during the all-out sub campaign from spring into the fall of 1918, 91 ships were destroyed by U-boats in North American waters, with 368 lives. The gross tonnage was 197,761 tons, including that of eleven ships lost through collisions or other mishaps...