Word: grossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Onetime Deputy War Shipping Administrator Lewis W. Douglas recently recommended that the U.S. hold onto only some 6,600,000 gross tons (of 40,000,000 tons now on the seas). War Shipping Administrator Emory S. Land has counseled: hang onto twice that much...
...will own some 5,500 ships after the war. The Harvard group thought that the U.S. should keep and operate 9,185,000 gross tons. A little more than half of the tonnage they allotted to domestic business (coastwise tankers, etc.); a little less than half (4,135,000 gross tons) they would assign to carrying the nation's foreign trade...
...that her stable is stuck in the Chicago area by ODT's shipping ban, she is going to try her luck in the 64-day Washington Park meet opening next week. It is certain to add a lot of profitable sport to the $141,270's worth (gross winnings) she has already had this season...
...defied classification : Gabriel Heat-ter, whose heart-plucking histrionics gross him $200,000 a year. Variety finds him politically "confused," lists his qualifications...
...many a company, the V-E day cutbacks had come too late to affect quarterly earnings seriously. For others, excess profits taxes had been a cushion against the drop in gross sales. In top brackets, taxes drop as fast as income, thus help keep earnings steady...