Word: grossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazis admitted executing 1,000 in the past few weeks of European revolt. The number was probably a gross understatement...
Super markets will have gross sales this year of about $2,000,000,000 - 22% of all U.S. retail food sales. This is the estimate presented last week by the U.S. Census Bureau's John Guernsey to a Philadelphia convention of the Super Market Institute (owners of more than 1,000 markets). How much larger a chunk of the nation's food bill super markets might eventually get, no one could guess. The U.S. had 9,250 super markets at year's beginning, has 10,100 now, is getting more all the time...
Super markets (defined by Guernsey as self-service groceries with at least a $100,000-a-year gross) buy groceries in carload lots, move them directly from freight car to customer; Super Market Merchandising estimates their operating costs at 12.9% (v. 19% to 21% for chains and 22% to 25% for most independents). As an economical method of distributing food, they got the blessings last week of not only Guernsey but also Corwin D. Edwards, who is in charge of the Justice Department's anti-trust investigation of the food industry...
Sadder but sweeter, Artie Shaw last week soft-talked the jitterbugs, dispensed autographs like grace notes. What he wants most is $25,000 to start his dream band, and the jitterbugs bring him a gross of $2,000 to $2,500 a night, five nights a week. Nevertheless Leader Shaw last week canceled 32 such golden dates in the South and Southwest, where he has never played. Reason: he was asked to shelve Negro Paige during that part of his tour. The South can take all-Negro bands like Cab Galloway's, and it doesn't mind small...
Started in Manhattan in 1789 on a borrowed capital of $600, the Methodist Board of Publication is America's oldest and biggest religious publishing house. Last week it reported a whopping $5,524,429 gross in the first combined year of operation since the Methodist Episcopal, M.E. South and the Methodist Protestant Churches merged to form the country's largest Protestant church. Last year it printed 1,500,000 books and 130,000,000 periodicals. Last week, by appropriating $200,000 of its 1940-41 proceeds for ministerial pensions, it ran the amount it has given to Methodist...