Word: grossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rockcastle County, Ky., is certainly not the best. Most of its null subscribers suffer old-fashioned wall crank phones. Once a break in the line was not repaired for three months. Some lines are down because poles have rotted away and have not been replaced. On a $6,372 gross last year, the company lost $39.58, It prints no directory; subscribers merely give the crank a whirl and say: "Gimme John Boone...
...Barger, veteran Chicago showman and owner of a burlesque house, figures to turn a neat profit on his new $165,000 venture if the weather man and the customers are kind to him. He can give two shows nightly. Full capacity (better than three admissions to a car) should gross him $15,000 to $20,000 a week...
...Richard Milton Hollingshead Jr., a vigorous fellow of 41 who thinks the U.S. was much happier in the days when most people couldn't read. His concern, Park-In Theatres, Inc., headed by Cousin Warren Willis Smith, is collecting 5% of all the Drive-In Theaters' weekly gross. Vice president in charge of manufacturing of R. M. Hollingshead Corp., world's largest makers of automotive polishes, enamels, brake fluids, etc., Hollingshead worked out the Drive-in Theater idea by asking himself in the early days of the late depression what luxuries people would give up last. Automobiles...
Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labor and National Service. "For twenty years this bulky, gross-featured man has been trade union 'boss' of Britain. . . . He has a great record of trade union administration behind him, but it is of a peculiarly unrepresentative kind. . . . His tone is often dictatorial, revealing that he considers himself the master of his union rather than the servant of his union. ... He forgets he is perched on a pile of pennies...
There are four Northern subsidiaries, the cream of the system-Ohio Edison, Consumers Power, Central Illinois Light, Pennsylvania Power. They account for about $80,000,000 of C. & S.'s $152,000,000 gross, but for $11,861,604 of its $13,048,510 earnings. C. & S.'s preferred stockholders (about 18,000 private investors) are owed $29,250,000 in back dividends. But when their share of the integration spoils was announced, the price of the preferred touched a new 1941 high at 64. As for the 163,000-odd C. & S. common shareholders, they become sole...