Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ward's is capitalized at $115,000, has a current inventory close to $300,000. Gross business for 1936 up to last week was about $200,000. Until this year no profit ever showed on the books because surplus cash was promptly plowed back into stock, frequently for rare items which might be called for only once in a decade. Turnover in some lines is extremely slow. Not long ago the company sold a crane skeleton which it had had for 50 years and which still bore a label written by William Hornaday. A skeleton of the extinct passenger...
...boxoffice socko"-was the hit. Von Sternberg directed it. He followed with Dishonored and Shanghai Express. The new contract which he negotiated for himself and Dietrich specified that she was to be paid $125,000 per picture-a record at that time. Von Sternberg got a percentage of the gross. The contract was extraordinary for provisions giving von Sternberg and Dietrich complete choice of writers, cutters, story material, technicians. No publicity could be released which had not been personally checked by them. They had achieved the dream which, to the average hard-working trouper or director, seems like a mirage...
...California passed a "guest statute" which stipulated that no guest could sue his host for damages unless the host were guilty of gross negligence, drunkenness or willful misconduct. In 1931, to cut down collusion, the gross negligence clause was removed. A guest was denned as a "person who accepts a ride in any vehicle without giving compensation therefor." When the McCann-Hoffman case came to trial year ago, the McCanns claimed that they were not guests of the Hoffmans since they had agreed to share the expenses of the weekend. They accused Biff Hoffman of speeding. He denied speeding...
...feet, of which one was so small that it flew through a crack in his bang-board. Adam Byczynski, Illinois champion and a hot favorite, husked fast but carelessly. His creditable total of 1,630 lb. was cut down to 1,466 by penalties. Well short of the Byczynski gross but a shade ahead of his net was the score of a long-faced, 38-year-old Iowan who, dressed in tennis shoes, white duck pants and an undershirt, had husked his rows more slowly but with scrupulous care. He was Carl Carlson, brother of famed Elmer...
...concede that in one instance, at least, Taxation had done the oil business good. The wonder worker was a particularly painful chain store tax which went into effect in Iowa in June 1935. Upon oil companies owning retail outlets it piled a new levy graduated steeply upward both on gross receipts and number of outlets. By last week it was apparent that this last straw, far from breaking the camel's back, had set it going with the wind. Oilmen trooping into Chicago's Hotel Stevens for the Institute meeting received with indifference the news that half...