Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half. But rising costs, notably of fuel, began to catch up with rising revenues in late spring. On July 1 the first of three wage increases totaling 10% went into effect. Last week as July reports began to trickle in, it was clear that not only net income but gross revenues as well were sliding. The first 15 roads to report showed a 7% drop in gross and a 42%, drop in net from July 1933. And though they intend to fight its Constitutionality, the railroads face additional charges of $65,000,000 annually under the Railway Pension Act passed...
Most people buy tombstones out of insurance money left by the deceased. Because insurance is among the last assets a man forfeits, the tombstone makers were serene long after hard times had pinched other manufacturers. In 1929 they sold $100,000,000 of memorials. By 1932 their gross had slipped to a third of that sum. but this year they expect to take in $60,000,000.* Ideal tombstone customer was the late Steelmaster Judge Elbert Henry Gary who built no less than 42 crypts and declared: "I believe every man should consider Death as carefully as he would consider...
Every year for more than a decade they have grossed an average of $75,000,000. They took in exactly $75,000,000 in 1919. Eight years later when waistlines were low and the tube dress and boyish ngun seemed to have eliminated the corset tor ever, the total gross was $77,000,000. And so much has happened to corsets in the last three years that corset men are willing to estimate 1934 gross sales at near...
...With her gross weight of 19 tons and top speed of 192 m.p.h., the 8-42 will be the world's biggest and fastest airplane in regular over-water service. Last April in her first test-flights she broke two world's altitude-with-load records, and with her performance last week now holds all existing transport seaplane records. Following her acceptance by PAA last week she flew non-stop from Bridgeport to Miami (1,300 mi.) for shakedown cruises at the company's Dinner Key Base...
Consolidated Gas stock broke through its 1932 Depression low last week, coasted down to $25 per share. Gross revenues of $53,000,000 for the second quarter were practically unchanged from the year before. But profits were down from $12,200,000 to $7,400,000, which per share of common stock meant a drop from 83¢ to 41¢. Though the dividend was pared from $3 to $2 annually only last April, the quarterly dividend payment of 50¢ was not earned. The drop in profits was caused wholly by the rise in the cost of doing business. For the first...