Word: grosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From bowsprit to stern, the Sea Cloud measures 310 ft. She has a bulk of 2,323 gross tons, carries 36,000 sq. ft. of canvas on her four towering masts. Below decks are four diesel engines which can boost her along at 14 knots. Under sail, she can step up her speed to 16 knots. But it was not such figures that awed the roustabouts in Baltimore; it was the fantastic elegance of her fittings...
...lessened by the sensational and politically tinged charges made by Senator Truman in his summary of it to the Senate. The Missourian, perhaps out of his anxiety to get a new $100,000 appropriation to continue his probe, weakened his own work by resorting to claptrap generalizations, even by gross errors-such as an assertion that more than half of U.S. total pursuit-plane production in 1942 would be of mediocre models...
Better still, a few lucky dealers will be selling new cars two years hence-something none had dared hope for. This is because Henderson will freeze at least 130,000 new cars onto a 1943 stockpile. On these cars alone, dealer gross profits plus delivery and warehouse charges (running up to $15 a month) should total over...
...Last year in Britain only 200 people had $20,000 net after payment of all taxes. In order to have that much residue, each had to have a net (not gross) income...
...number is about up. The little fellow's good fortune has not only served to restore Disneymen's faith in themselves as artists, he has also rekindled the light in Disney's eye. He didn't cost much ($600,000), and he is expected to gross almost as much as Snow White did in the U.S. He may get his boss out of debt, and he has once again proved to him that, in cartooning, personality is the thing...