Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held its 45th annual stockholders meeting, Gus Anderson and all the other employes crowded into its cheery cafeteria (green walls, cretonne curtains) to hear how their management was running their business. Gus and his fellows learned that the company had run up a $10,000 deficit on a 1938 gross of $82,600. But Pilgrim had laid off no regular worker, paid its regular dividends, maintained a 7% wage increase granted in 1937 (average wage: $25.53 a week...
...similar tax was proposed by Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend to pay his nationwide pensions. Closest approach to it in actual practice is Hawaii's "gross income...
Meanwhile, two smart Philadelphia Jewish boys named Harry and Maxwell Kunin had rolled out to Chicago in a Pullman and gone into the grocery trade. With their father they opened a small store, branched into manufacturing and wholesaling, did a $250,000 gross business in 1919, their first year. Paying workers on a Bedaux-like bonus system, concentrating on relatively few (2,000) items and selling them cheaply, Samuel Kunin & Sons, Inc. grew fast. Last year they grossed nearly $5,000,000-a third as much as lumbering old Sprague Warner, which was having tough going with...
...stores on a graduated scale to a maximum of $1,000 times the number of stores times the number of States. For the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s 11,752 stores this tax would be $458,328,000, more than half A. & P.'s 1937 gross sales. Melville Shoe Corp.'s 674 stores would have to pay $18,580,000. Woolworth's 1,859 stores $91,091,000. J. C. Penney's 1,540 stores...
...more than its share of major kidnappings (George Weyerhaeuser in 1935, Charles Mattson in 1936), does not think highly of the way newspapers and radio cover this kind of news. After the Mattson boy was murdered the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce publicly censured reporters and editors for "gross mistakes that many people believe may have prevented the return of this child unharmed" (TIME, Feb. 8, 1937). Last week crime news was worrying Tacomans again, but this time they were afraid they weren't getting enough...