Word: grossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gross...
...Every rehearsal was "like an invasion"-350 performers, 70 stagehands, five revolving stages, 17 scenes. Haggard and jittery, Hart managed "to stay calm till I got to my bedroom at night, when I went crazy." Though he had waived every cent of royalties (in various forms Winged Victory may gross $10,000,000 for Army Emergency Relief) the show, for him, was the most important thing he had ever done...
...classes taught by Sculptor Chaim Gross (who discovered the Alliance the day after he left Ellis Island), Etchers William Auerbach-Levy, Painter Abbo Ostrowsky. The alumni of these classes include Sculptor Jacob Epstein, Painters Raphael and Isaac Soyer, Peter Blume, Philip Evergood...
...Though passenger revenues normally amount to only 10% or railway gross on the average, to many a road they represent the difference between profit & loss
After the company wound up its foreign orders in 1942, the net profits dropped sharply to $11,055,000. This year they will be still lower, with the percentage of profit to gross, which was a firm 8% in 1938, now dropping below 3%. Compared to a 1938 net profit of $2,147,000, these figures are high. But despite its present position with an annual business of $1,000,000,000 and a backlog of over $2,500,000,000 (fourth largest of any U.S. company), the company had been able to pile up only...