Word: grosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the London String Quartet toured the western world, played top-notch Beethoven to audiences sophisticated and simple. Eventually the players found that they could not make a living from $750 gross per occasional performance, split four ways...
Yowled Mussomouthpiece Virginio Gayda: ". . . repellent war aims, a gross and clumsy gesture of Anglo-Saxon warmongering, useless and grotesque...
...United Aircraft increased its first-half gross 210% over 1940 to a record $121,830,000; net-before-taxes to $25,883,000, also a record. Then it whacked off 80% of this for Federal taxes, thus cut net to $5,583,000 v. $6,228,000 in the first half of 1940 (when taxes were computed at 22%). Under existing or proposed tax law, the 1941 write-off looked as if it discounted the moon...
...Lady helped San Francisco be what many a citizen wanted it to be-a wide-open town. She furnished bail by the gross to bookmakers and prostitutes, kept a taxi waiting at the door to whisk them out of jail and back to work. But she was also a catalyst that brought underworld and police department into an inevitably corrupt amalgam. At her retirement the San Francisco Chronicle waxed nostalgic: "The Old Lady . . . will take to her rocking chair, draw her shawl about her. . . ." But many a citizen thought simply: "Good riddance...
When Mutual signed with ASCAP last May, it offered to ASCAP 3% of its gross receipts, but its contract gives it the privilege of scaling down this fee to match any more favorable deal rival networks might make with ASCAP. CBS was still outside the fold last week, but it seemed likely to follow NBC's suit, sign up with ASCAP at drastically reduced fees. ASCAP went to war full of steam and confidence...