Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presenting the extra girl with a wrist watch hilarious by the way he says: "It's a little token of my esteem and . . . it's guaranteed." Director William Beaudine had fine dialog to work with and he put in a few sharp touches of his own. The gross face of an anonymous cinemaddict who is almost strangled by his amusement at the preview of Merton's picture, underscores the gesture of shame with which Merton rolls up his cowboy hat, hides it under his coat...
...Last week 64 roads had reported their May results. Gross revenues were $235,000,000, a 30.8% decrease from last year while net operating income was $9,965,000, a drop of 73%, worst so far reported for any month this year. For the first five months gross revenue was down 26%, net operating income 50%. Twenty-seven of the reporting roads showed deficits. Among the losers was New York Central which, despite a reduction of $6,000,000 in expenses, fell $226,000 short of earning anything at all on its bonds, bank loans and R. F. C. loan...
...report, the Harvard Bureau gives for the first time typical figures for margin, expenses, and profit per average gross sales transaction. These figures show clearly that stores last year reduced the cost of handling the average transaction. This resulted in part from an increase in the average number of transactions handled per employee. The slightly lower percentages of gross margin on the smaller average sale, however, did not yield sufficient margin to cover even the reduced expenses...
...department stores with sales of $2,000,000 or more the average gross sale last year was $2.30. For department stores with sales of from $500,000 to $2,000,000 the corresponding figure was $1.90, and for department stores with sales less than $500,000, $1.95. In large specialty stores the average gross sale...
...Figures indicate that although the more profitable firms in some cases achieved higher than average rates of gross margin, their larger profits of smaller losses resulted chiefly from lower expenses...