Word: grossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...underchannel bore would be 24 miles long, between Dover and Calais. Electric locomotives doing 92 m.p.h. would pull trains carrying 508 passengers. The trip would take two hours, 45 minutes. The fare would be ?2 ($8). There would be 22 trains daily. The cost would be ?190 million. Annual gross receipts would be ?35 million; net profit, ?12 million. That would be 6.3% on the investment...
...production translated into 180,000 yards of cloth, 3,000 gallons of paint, 1,500,000 yards of baby ribbon a year. But both partners clam up when they are asked about profits. All Partner Rowland will say about the net income on 1943's $1,000,000 gross is: "We ain't complainin...
...during depression years by a pessimistic ICC which set the limit on fixed charges at what the railroads could earn in lean years. But these plans now got the green light at the close of a year in which rail income hit an alltime high. Estimated C. & N. W. gross for 1943 is $165 million, net $25 million...
...hour of its entire network time of 60 weekly hours: a sour Saturday morning spot (10-10:30) that usually catches only 15% of the nation's radio ear. CBS, Mutual and the Blue Network, a bit less jammed, were coy about just how much. But the 1943 gross for the Big Four will run to around $145,000,000, 20% above...
...tall tale about legendary Febold Feboldson, who solved the Indian food problem by blowing the water out of the ponds so that the ducks stuck in the mud. Febold also rid the Midwest of wailing coyotes by importing (from his friend Paul Bunyan) a hundred gross of whimpering whingdings (indescribably mournful creatures who made the coyotes die of grief...