Word: grossness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Frazer Corp. to trade finished steel for K-F's pig iron. (He also made another deal, the committee found, with Cincinnati's David J. Joseph Sr., one of the big U.S. scrap dealers. For his scrap, Joseph got 8,254 tons of steel, and a tidy gross profit...
...rise in costs, poor weather early in the year, and the grounding of all the new DC-6s swelled United's loss to $3,747,000. American Airlines, Inc., biggest domestic carrier, was also nipped by the grounding. Though its traffic (some 1.4 billion passenger miles) and gross revenues (nearly $82 million) were the highest in company history, its losses soared to $2,962,776 (from...
Johnny Presents. With an ear cupped to tobacco trade gossip-which had Philip Morris' sales slipping-President Alfred E. Lyon gave out a preliminary report of the 1947-48 fiscal year. Both gross and unit sales were up over the preceding year, said Al Lyon, thanks to a sharp increase in the last two months (last year's gross...
Sonotone Corp., which contends that its gross of $11,000,000 last year was bigger than Zenith's, chalked up 40% of its cost to manufacturing, the rest to training of acousticians and patient education. Zenith's McDonald considers all such frills so much mumbo-jumbo to spark sales. He thinks aids should be sold off department-store shelves and by mail order...
...Miracle of the Bells (RKO Radio), an adaptation of Russell Janney's fragrant bestseller, is a "religious movie" -of a sort. Its box-office gross should be a fair measure of the depths of U.S. pseudo-religious depravity...