Word: grosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agreement the Mutual chain will pay 3% of its gross receipts on a blanket license agreement for the first four years, 3½% thereafter until January 1950. Payment on a pay-as-you-play basis was rejected by Mutual on grounds that the bookkeeping would be too complicated...
...attitude expressed in the editorial had not yet arrived at accepting convoys.) Rear Admiral Emery S. Land, chairman of the United-States Maritime Commission, stated the following in a letter to Senator Vandenberg: of all the vessels sunk between January 1 and April 30 only 12 of 66,782 gross tons cleared from United States ports; of these 12 only eight cleared for United Kingdom ports. I might say slightly below 40 per cent. He based his information "according to our composite records, which we believe to be complete." Now what happens to the convoy excuse of those...
Pearl White and Ruth Roland are dead. But on the books of three U.S. cinemakers (Republic, Universal, Columbia) To Be Continued is still doing important business. Any one of these companies' dozen yearly serials (trade name: cliff hangers) is likely to gross a million dollars. The Lone Ranger, made three years ago for $325,000, grossed over $1,250,000-a better return than most feature pictures bring...
...citizens and editors of London grew petulant last week over what seemed to them a gross blunder in British strategy: denuding Libya to undertake a hopeless campaign in Greece. The apparent threat to the Suez Canal had them scared. "This is no diversion," said the London Evening News. "Glossing it over with vague, official words of comfort-words which long since have lost all their par value on the public market-is mere futility. The blunt truth is that while we were sitting back easily congratulating ourselves on our triumphs over the Italians, the Germans got to work...
Clarifying this point the Wall Street Journal estimated that the net cost of the wage rise this year to U.S. Steel (gross cost: $62,000,000) would be only $23,560,000 after allowing for tax savings; to Bethlehem (gross cost: $18,000,000), $6,840,000; to Republic (gross cost: $10,000,000), $3,800,000. Proof of how steel earnings are mounting under present capacity operations, and how big a slice the excess-profits tax is taking, was contained in Republic's first-quarter report. It showed a net profit of $8,189,967 (highest in history...