Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accommodate Promoter Jacobs the New York State Athletic Commission waived its 40-round maximum rule and 32,000 boxing fans proved willing to sit on wooden seats for four-and-a-half hours, the perverse indifference of the U. S. sporting public to non-heavyweight boxing encounters kept the gross gate receipts down to a disappointing $232,600. Since Promoter Jacobs had contracted to pay his eight fighters some $190,000 and 10% of the profits went to charity, most striking feature of the second carnival of champions was that it was the first big Jacobs event which apparently lost...
...Pennsylvania and five other roads announced that their net operating income for August was 11.7% under August 1936, though gross revenues rose...
...plant started operation in July 1936 and Union has now caught up fully with the paper revolution. Last year it made 7,000,000,000 of the U. S. total of 50,000,000,000 paper bags. Its $10,800,000 bag sales were 13% of the U. S. gross of $80,000,000 and its profits totted up to $387,000. And last week as his stockholders voted to split their shares and also issue $7,000,000 in convertible debentures. President Calder was able to estimate that earnings in the third quarter alone this year will...
...example, Southern Pacific Co., first road to report its August figures, last week revealed gross revenues up $1,831,300 over 3 years ago but net operating income down...
...flashy men's fashions immediately found it a public favor never achieved by less flamboyant aspirants such as Vanity Fair. Despite its 50? price, Esquire boomed at once, last February reached a peak circulation of 610,000. For the fiscal year ended March 1937 it had a gross advertising revenue of $2,770,000, circulation revenue...