Word: grossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside of the good overall earnings, there were few surprises and little to cheer about. Biggest surprise: a good many utilities, whose outlook for increased earnings was supposedly hopeless-their gross business is stable, their costs, on the rise-managed to squeak out a little more net income. Most notable were Wendell Willkie's ex-company. Commonwealth & Southern, with a six months' net of $7,331,000, its best showing in more than ten years; and New York's huge, over-bonded Consolidated Edison, whose $5,869,000 net for the second quarter was almost 25% above...
...almost 50% over last year when G.M. was still struggling to convert to war. (This was still a far cry from the $53,580,000 G.M. made in bonanza 1941.) Bethlehem Steel, No. 2 war baby, gained nearly 10% to earn $6,600,000 on gross billings of $490,000,000. Du Pont, with an 18% increase in sales, turned in a 27% increase in net after paying a $31,291,000 tax bill, more than twice what was left over for stockholders...
...time to read the riot act to some . . . teachers. They are just as dangerous, just as guilty of treason as the man who blows up the White House. There is a rule of the Board of Education that a teacher . . . guilty of gross misconduct may be dropped.. . . But the teacher who teaches pacifism . ... is a thousand times more dangerous . . . than the teacher who gets drunk and lies in the gutter...
...Brown Derby's 20th anniversary was a quiet celebration. Rita Hayworth and Paul Whiteman posed for pictures. Charlie Chaplin and his fourth bride arrived. Hollywood adolescents gawked, clutching their autograph books, watching at the door of the onetime hamburger stand which has now become four restaurants doing a gross business of $2 million a year...
Built at Clydebank, Scotland, in 1896, she was one of the finest steam yachts of her time, a stately and luxurious craft of 1,780 gross tons. (J. P. Morgan's famed Corsair was 2,181 gross tons.) In 1898 the Navy snapped her up for conversion as an auxiliary war vessel, paying $430,000 to the Ogden Goelet estate. She saw action, took part in the blockade of Havana, chased three Spanish warships, scored a hit on one with a 5-in. shell...