Word: grosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...build. From its 20,000 employes (average pay: 75? an hour) Lockheed-Vega solicited voluntary pledges of two or more hours of pay per man, planned to make up the difference itself (expected to be almost 50% of the cost, despite an estimated 100% subscription). Proclaimed the Brothers Gross (Robert E., president of Lockheed, and Courtland S., president of Vega) after querying the State Department on procedure:*"We will be very glad to transfer the funds so raised ... to Lord Lothian with the employes' instructions that the Ambassador use this money toward the purchase of a Lockheed Hudson...
...cashiered, but with the outbreak of war in China was taken back into the Army. In December 1937, on his own initiative he ordered his artillery and air squadron to fire on the British gunboats Ladybird, Scarab and Bee, and on the U.S.S. Panay, which was sunk. For this gross insubordination he was reprimanded but never punished...
...week) was the composite make-up of the registered group in each local draft district. For example: The Army intends to call up 800,000 one-year trainees by next June 15 (the first 30,000 are to be called Nov. 18). Last week Selective Service headquarters first allotted gross quotas to each State, then deducted from these totals the number of men from each State who were already in service. Result: each State's net quota.† State draft administrators could then break up their Statewide quotas into the quotas for each local draft district...
...report. Extremely inactive, the closely held stock sometimes does not change hands for years. Last known sale: three shares last summer at $465 a share. But in a 1932 lawsuit Tiffany & Co. reluctantly said sales in the preceding 40 years were $350,000,000. Fellow tradesmen put boom-year gross at $20,000,000. much less today. Present seneschal of Tiffany tradition is six-foot, grey-haired John Chandler Moore, whose grandfather was vice president under the first Tiffany. To friends, John Chandler is a kindly, dignified gentleman who wears high, stiff collars, tightly knotted ties. His weakness: he loves...
...publicity, more exhibits and better backing, it failed to match the record of its rival. Over 19,000,000 paying customers clicked through the shiny turnstiles this year, one-quarter less than in 1939, less than half original astronomic hopes. Fair Chairman Harvey Dow Gibson estimated that his 1940 gross was $10,450,000, his operating profit $5,020,000. When the final figures have been added, bondholders (who put $26,862,800 in Flushing Flats) will get back in aggregate, including past interest payments, about $11.225,000, or 38% of their investment...