Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gentile the Gaumont British Corporation, controlling 300 theatres, refused to rent City Lights last week on the original Chaplin terms: 50% of the gross receipts...
...Aviation Corp. of the Americas, holding company for Pan American Airways, last week announced a net loss of $305,271 for 1930, against $317,412 in 1929. Gross 1930 earnings were $5,609,938; operating expenses...
...program gave the Treasury a tidy little profit. The matured notes bore 3½% interest. They were retired with a bond issue at 3⅜% and (figuratively) short-term securities at 2% and 1½%. This represented a reduction from 3.75% to 3.72% in the interest rate on the gross public debt. Small in percentage, it meant an actual annual saving of $15,700,000 in the Government's interest payments...
...free from vice and wickedness, has not known the sorrows which Depression has visited upon other cities. And, unlike many a less fortunate tycoon, Dr. Voliva found himself no poorer after his jauntings. If what he says is true, he is still many times a millionaire, still has a gross income of $6,000,000 a year...
...business, perhaps also much competition from long distance telephone service, has flattened the earnings of telegraph companies. Last week the directors of Postal Telegraph & Cable (common stock 100%-owned by International Telephone & Telegraph) met, looked at the 1930 report, promptly passed the 7% preferred dividend. Postal's gross last year slipped from $40,258,000 in 1929 to $37,923,000. After expenses and bond interest, it earned a paltry $96,000 against $2,972,000 in 1929. Not so drastic was Western Union's decline which brought 1930 earnings to $9,248,000 against...