Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Champion Braddock's net return from his share of last week's $715,000 gross receipts, ninth largest in ring history, was some $60,000,* far less than he was offered as a guarantee for fighting Challenger Schmeling. But Champion Braddock's loss was trifling compared to Madison Square Garden's. After last week's fight. Promoter Jacobs signed a five year contract for Champion Louis' exclusive services. Since a condition of fighting Joe Louis will doubtless be for all challengers a similar contract with Promoter Jacobs, Louis' victory last week gave Promoter...
Champion Braddock's share was 50% of the gross receipts after State and Federal taxes had been deducted. Of his original $300,000, Braddock had to give half to his longtime manager, Joe Gould, who pays training expenses. Of his remaining $150,000 almost half went for taxes, $15,000 more to settle a debt with Promoter Jacobs...
...stock theatres such as the Garrick Players (Kennebunkport), Ogunquit Playhouse (where for one week Bubble Dancer Sally Rand will appear as the freak draw in They Knew What They Wanted), and the new Boothbay Play house, Lakewood gets its customers from all over the State. Usual week's gross is $2,500. Three years ago, when Groucho Marx appeared in Twentieth Century, the take was doubled. Skowheganites say that fish came out of the lake to see that show...
...states in his hoarse steelman's voice that the C. I. O. "hasn't got us yet" and that Tom Girdler is "doing a yeoman's job for all of us" (see p. 9). With total assets of $2,400,000, Birdsboro employs 800 men, had gross sales of $3,000,000 last year, net income of $233,000. The stock of this company, whose story would make a perfect Joseph Hergesheimer novel, has always been closely held but last week Birdsboro was granted permission to list 200,000 shares of no-par common...
...sure it was not your intention to hint, however indirectly, that Frankensteen is a Communist and thus be guilty of a gross inaccuracy...