Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...houses a day in two, three-and four-bedroom models, ranging in price from $7,100 to $10,000. With their own fleet of 35 trucks, they deliver houses right to the lot. Last year they completed 2,500, netted $330,000 on a $4,500,000 gross...
...industry had reason to be proud. It had boosted its prewar sales rate of $270 million to $900 million last year, in 1948 expects to gross $1 billion for the first time in its history. The soaring wages of office help, plus the growing complexity of keeping tax, payroll deductions and other records, were driving U.S. offices to mechanize as fast as possible...
Britain was planning to plow back 20% of her gross income each year for the next four years into improving her production plant. Next to the U.S., Britain was the West's biggest Santa Claus. While taking ECA dollars with one hand, she was giving to Marshall aid countries with the other $312 million (in sterling) to cover their expected trading deficit with Britain...
...only planted their likenesses on children's watches, but on 2,000 other products, ranging from meat, breakfast foods and fruit juices to weather vanes, candy, cameras, toys, sweaters, ice cream packages and wallpaper. This year goods bearing the faces of Disney characters will bring in a retail gross of $100 million...
...deals have meant plenty to the Disney-Kamen partnership. Disney's last financial report lumped merchandising with income from comic strips and commercial pictures, at a yearly net of $1,048,522. Kamen, who makes no financial reports for his own private company, last week reckoned the 1948 gross at $1,000,000-of which, he said, Disney would get $700,000, Kamen...