Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...factory, she laid it out with some of her own shrewd ideas of how to eliminate waste motion (e.g., it has tilted tables down which workpieces slide from one worker to another without having to be carried). By such production-boosting devices she expects to step up her gross next year to $14 million (her net is Nellie's own secret...
Nevertheless, the agency racked up an impressive financial record last year. From blood donations alone (one of the subdivisions of the bureau), students pulled down a cool $20,000 and when you add in the income from such things as apply picking, dog walking, and sailing instructions, the total gross well into six figures. Nobody knows the exact amount, for students are shy about telling Holt just how much they ears. Income tax again...
...shirt sales climbed, so did the royalties from Sanforizing. This year the company's income from the Sanforizing royalties is running at a rate of $7,000,000-just about equal to the probable 1948 net on its $82 million gross. With, the new wool and rayon processes, it hopes to step up its royalties still more...
What makes the picture even prettier, for Miss Webster, is that Impresario Sol Hurok is in it. He has booked the troupe on the same basis as the touring Met or a Marian Anderson recital, has guaranteed minimum gross receipts all along the way. The show will cost the playgoer 60? to $3.60, depending on the local sponsor; in some cases, admission will be free, with a school fund footing the bill...
Impressed by the 300,000 instrument landings with G.C.A., the U.S. Air Force this week gave Gilfillan Brothers a new $6,000,000 contract for 30 additional installations. (The Air Force now operates 92.) By year's end, Gilfillan expected to triple its gross (from $4,600,000 to $13 million), boost employment from...