Word: grossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four-motored, 65,000-lb (standard gross weight) C-54, transport and cargo plane that hauls a freight car load through the skies...
...Donald Douglas collects $120,000 salary a year, which he spends sparingly. Dividend-wise, the returns have not been rich, although the company has not lost a dime since it started. The best year was 1941, when net profits were a fat $18,177,000 after taxes on its gross...
...lone investor paid $2,550 for 100 shares of American Distilling Co. stock on Thursday, Sept. 30. If he had happened to sell out at 11:45 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 27, he would have made a gross profit of $4,150. Even if he held on-which is much more likely-he would have ended the week with a paper profit of $3,725, almost half of it chalked up during last week's five and a half days of trading. Despite this dizzy boom, he might well think his shares were not overvalued...
...first week, the market grossed $800, made a neat profit. Within a month coupon-weary housewives so jammed this pointless paradise that the gross zoomed to $1,500. Now the market does a $2,000 weekly gross, has brought Hart many offers to expand. Last week, he turned them all down. He feels that more stores would keep him too busy, give him little time to sit back, puff at his pipe and chortle at his fellow grocers, sore-eyed, weary-fingered, thumbing over hundreds of stamps through the nights...
...Children cost only $175,000 to make and was the biggest low-budget money-maker in screen history until Behind the Rising Sun (cost: $210,000) outshone it by covering production costs in New England alone. In any normal year only a very few expensive films will gross as much as $3,000,000. Gross estimates on each of RKO's two sleepers, for the first time in screen history, run anywhere from...