Word: grossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beta Kapp's current membership consists of: George R. Bird '49, Nathanlel Cohen '49, Richard H. Cromwell '49, Jack Durell '49, George Elseman '49, Walter S. Frank '49, Roy F. Gootenberg '49, Charles M. Gray '49, Ralph Gross '49, Antonio G. Haas '44, David G. Hughes '47, Immanuel I. Kohn '48, Thomas F. O'Dea '50, Irwin Opponheim '49, Horbert J. Spre '50, John M. Teem...
...protect him from the competition of big chain stores. Instead, he went out after customers with such unorthodox loss-leader promotions as selling two thousand $1 bills for 95? apiece. By selling everything from meat and liquor to haircuts and ladies' ready-to-wear, he boosted the annual gross of his hustle-bustling "Webb's City" from a first-year $39,000 (in 1925) to some $12 million currently...
...crash March 31, had succeeded his father as head of the business founded on a process for extracting bromine from the briny seas under Midland, Mich. Willard Dow had developed enough new products and processes to make the company the fourth biggest U.S. chemical manufacturer (600 products, $171 million gross and $21 million profit in 1948). Last week the directors picked two men to fill Willard Dow's shoes...
Airlines. Edward V. Rickenbacker's tightly run ("We squeeze the pennies and then we squeeze the mills") Eastern Air Lines made a profit last year, as usual. On an alltime record gross of $66.5 million, Eastern turned in a net of $2,350,000 (98? a common share), almost double the 1947 figure...
...this paragon of virtue, by then long a bishop and according to H. L. Mencken "the most powerful ecclesiastic ever heard of in America," was accused by the elders of his own church of immorality, bucketshop gambling, flour-hoarding (during World War I), adultery, lying and "gross moral turpitude and disregard for the first principles of Christian ethics...