Word: grossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Building Owners and Managers. Coming from 70 U. S. cities, they were hornet-mad about a politico-economic national scandal. The scandal is that urban property taxes are so high that they drive population to suburbs, so that city real estate and city governments face bankruptcy together. Of the gross annual income of $7,000,000,000 derived from U. S. real estate, $4,500,000,000 goes for taxes...
...praising Austrian Otto Gross, who insisted that psychoanalysis be used as an instrument of violent revolution, he becomes so favorably excited that he talks of analysis as if he believed...
Expressman Loening pointed out that for the year ended June 1939, U. S. air lines did a gross business of over $47,000,000, got less than 3% of it from express. Holland's K. L. M. carried almost ten times as much on a ton-mile basis as big Eastern Air Lines. T. A. C. A., lugging everything from pencils to mining machinery through Central America in antiquated Ford "tin geese," carried more than twice the freight load of all U. S. domestic lines...
...their bush-browed proprietor John Raklios. He had hit the Loop in 1901, fresh from Greece with $10 in his pocket, had parlayed a basket of fruit into a sidewalk fruit stand, then switched his bet to popular-priced restaurants. In 1928, his top year, his chain did a gross business of $3,600,000, and talkative John Raklios, with a classic "stromberry" accent, counted himself a millionaire, with a $65,000 mansion on Sheridan Road...
...Perused by ICC was the application of a new Delaware corporation named Trans port Co. for permission to consolidate over 20 Atlantic seaboard trucking firms (employes 30,000; total '39 gross, $40,000.000) into one $25.000,000 firm. The deal: Transport Co. to buy the truckers for about 75% cash, balance in common & preferred stock of the new company. ∧ Be-goggled Detroiter Emmett Francis ("Spike") Connely, head of First of Michigan Corp., became first paid president of conservative Investment Bankers Association. Rumored maximum salary: $40,000 a year. He authored and will promote...