Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swift. A steel man would be dissatisfied to earn only $11,432,000 net on a gross of $619,000,000. For Swift it was better than the year before and only a few million short of the company's 1926 high of $15,000,000. During the first ten months, said President Gustavus Franklin Swift, U. S. meat-eaters had consumed nearly three pounds more meat and lard than the year before. The forced marketing of drought-stricken animals had led the company at times to operate "at a rate far beyond what it had always regarded...
...picture of Mrs. Sam Paley in a Spanish costume. Other big Consolidated customers: Bayuk Phillies (500,000,000 bands), White Owl (450,000,000), William Penn (125,000,000), El Producto (125,000,000). Bands sell for 22? to 45? per thousand, and in a good year Consolidated sales gross...
...Manhattan office last week Mr. Rabkin rubbed his hands with ill-concealed delight. Business was on the boom. This year the makers of penny arcade machines had hoped to gross $7,500,000. Already their income was above that figure. "Why, the industry's going to take in $12,000,000," chuckled Mr. Rabkin. His colleagues knew that the principal reason for their joyous prosperity was that glass-encased gadget which is currently the most popular and the most profitable of all penny arcade devices-the pin game...
...Author Gene Fowler. Publisher Covici secured rights to print the script of The Mighty Barnum in book form. The producers. Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc., asked nothing but the publicity from simultaneous release of book and film. Author Fowler and Co-Author Bess Meredyth were to split 15% of the gross sales...
...that I have become interested in Dr. Koch's cancer cure, and that I have promised to aid in having a demonstration of Dr. Koch's cancer serum made on 1,000 cancer sufferers? These statements are entirely without foundation, and whoever is propagating them is doing gross violence to the truth...