Word: grossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senators then let him go and went to listen to other sales-tax proposals. One for a sales tax on merchants' gross sales of goods (not services) was offered by the committee's counsel, Colin F. Stam. The other, a proposal for a 10% stamp tax on sales-the Government to pay back the stamp buyers after the war or accept the stamps as income-tax payments-came from Connecticut's John A. Danaher...
...Father sat tight and looked haughty. They were in no hurry: oil was gushing in their own backyard, and Hollywood's checks could be waved away. The ten owners-Producer Oscar Serlin, Adapters Lindsay & Crouse, Mrs. Clarence Day, John Hay Whitney and the rest-saw Life With Father gross $973,000 on Broadway the first year, $860,000 the second, could still count on a tidy sum the third, while road companies grossed $2,000,000 more. Inwardly they rocked with laughter thinking of the $15,000 Warner Bros, had once offered for the film rights; but last year...
...luxe coach trains already running prove it. For example New York Central's New York-Chicago Pacemaker averages 500 passengers in twelve to 15 cars nightly. So does the Pennsylvania's Trail Blazer. Both should gross better than $5-6,000 a trip on a direct out-of-pocket cost for wages, fuel, cleaning, etc. of over...
...IRON, STEEL BRANCH. Said the Post scoop: a young, $5,600-a-year WPB consultant named Frederick I. Libbey was cooking up a report which would blister the WPB's Iron & Steel Branch; after consultation around the country with steel experts he had found gross mismanagement in Washington; he was convinced the steel branch experts were second-rate ex-salesmen palmed off on the Government by steel companies who don't need salesmen any more. Only a major shake-up could save the day, said the Libbey story...
...Pork on the hoof hit a 22-year high of $15.30 cwt. last week despite retail price-fixing. At $15.30, economists figured that scientific feeding of 85? corn in the trough brought over $2.50 a bu. gross when resold...