Word: grosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extra cigarets, food and candy from U.S. friends could not hope for much this year, either. According to British customs regulations, "unsolicited gifts, whether they include rationed foods or not, may be received from abroad by parcel post addressed to individuals: but no parcel may exceed five pounds gross weight or contain more than two pounds of any one foodstuff." Gift parcels must not be sent more often than is "reasonable" (interpreted generally as once a month). Parcels from the U.S. that don't conform to these regulations are confiscated and distributed to charity...
...Hogs, Ducklings. Jerry Land's fleet is designed to do a lot better than its predecessor, next year and for years to come. By the end of 1943, when the current U.S. Maritime Commission's build ing program is completed, the U.S. merchant marine is expected to gross about 18,000,000 tons (nearly equal to Great Britain's tonnage at the outset of this war; twice the size of the U.S. merchant marine at the end of the last war); and 50% of U.S. foreign trade will be carried in native bottoms. Those bottoms will...
Because of these new-found traffic sources, L. & N. revenues in 1941's first nine months jumped 20% to $87,000,000, highest since 1929. But net operating income rose 57% to $19,129,000, the best since sainted 1926. L. & N.'s record in thus converting gross to net proves that it pays to be prepared...
...stern gangway for depth charges. The three engines pack enough power to run away from destroyers (i.e., 45 knots or more) except in rough weather. Since such boats have little offensive value unless used in large flotillas, the Navy may decide to put little Huckins Yacht Corp. (normal gross: less than $500,000 a year) into the defense business...
...gross miscarriage of justice is about to take place in the Minnesota sedition trials. This was the keynote sounded by Mrs. Dorothy Schultz to a meeting of the Harvard Liberal Union held last night in protest to the charges pending against 23 members of Socialist Workers' Party for conspiracy against the government...