Word: grossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make the claim as both showman and businessman. The Waring Corp. (whose Waring Mixer is a U.S. kitchen and barroom standby) is still doing nicely. So are the Waring Musical Library, the Shawnee Press (which sells the Waring choral arrangements), concert bookings, recordings. All told, the Waring enterprises gross the Maestro "at least" $2 million a year...
...tactics help operators and managers to keep service at a uniform, better-than-average level; in the past they have helped most backers to get their investment back within five years. The wartime ban on pleasure driving cut heavily into their business. But this year, the chain expects to gross nearly $32 million, about 200% more than prewar...
...took Hollywood no time at all to make up its mind. Less than 24 hours after Britain's Government levied a new tax which, in effect, will take 75% of the gross earnings of U.S. films, Movie Czar Eric Johnston announced that Britain would get no more of them. Cinemoguls, meeting in a 3½-hour session with Johnston, angrily charged that the tax was confiscatory. "If the British want American pictures," said Johnston, "they shouldn't expect to get a dollar's worth for a quarter...
Richard Neison Wishbone Harris was making an understatement. In three years, he has built his "Toni" home permanent-wave kits into a merchandising phenomenon which this year will gross an estimated $16 million and net a tidy $3 million profit, enough to curl anyone's hair. By shrewd advertising (1947 budget: $3.5 million), Harris has captured 50% of the home-wave market. A genial gladhander, Wishbone helps sales by gadding around the country calling on retailers...
Charged with "aggravated contempt and gross breach of privilege," Allighan would be lucky to get off with a reprimand from the Speaker. Parliament could, if it wished, suspend him, expel him, or even confine him in the Tower of the House. Herbert Morrison announced to the House that Allighan has gone to South Africa "on medical advice...