Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, Technicolor is a magic word. On movie marquees, it automatically increases the gross of a film as much as 25%. But during the booming war years the word was not so magical to Technicolor, Inc. Hampered by strikes and shortages, its earnings were just soso...
...record peacetime sales of $1.3 billion in 1947, it had netted $95,298,940, highest in its 56-year history. But the margin of profit on sales was down (7.2% against 11.6% prewar). The experiment in price cutting, said G.E.'s Charles E. Wilson, will cut gross sales about...
Chipped. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. sweetened the market for a new 40,000-share common stock issue by announcing a record gross of $795,538,075 in 1947, a 20% increase over 1946. Net profits after taxes were $120,009,760, up 6%. Du Pont worried about "excessive construction costs" in its expansion program, set up a reserve that chipped $1.51 off share earnings, brought them to $9.88 per share...
...Veterans Office staff, meanwhile, continued to comb its thousands of file cases in hopes of uncovering a conclusive lead. Although Monro holds several definite theories on the personality and background of the unknown crook who has used the name "Herbert R. Gross" hundreds of these files have been re-scrutinized thus...
...attempt to identify "Gross" went on, the Veterans Office began to consider methods of tightening the present book authorization system against any future illegal inroads...